SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes. He always finishes with taps ...

Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring veterans, military retirees and active-duty personnel. Allen Moon, of Gansevoort ...

Funerals are not something I attend for fun. The two words are, after all, pretty much antonyms. It is a fact that often funerals are the only occasion at which I get to see many of my relatives these ...

Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. “A lot of people get a ...

The doughboy plays Taps to honor those who were killed in World War I and everyone who has served their country since. On April 16, 2021, the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., opened ...

Grapevine, Tex.? The day before his grandfather’s military funeral, Jonathan Taylor learned something would be missing. Though the Army veteran would have an honor guard, no bugler was available to ...

About a dozen times over the last two years, Jack Bumann has gone to cemeteries in western Illinois to help honor military veterans he never met. A high school trumpet player in the small town of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim McDevitt preparing to play "Taps" at Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Bucks County. He was a teenager in the 1950s who ...