doug Marlette runs through *** series of scales and then stands quietly, his demeanor changing as he practices playing taps, drafted into the Vietnam war as an army medic. He was not able to save all ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Monday afternoon, there is a national remembrance taking place for all of America's fallen soldiers. It is part of Taps Across America. At three p.m., those who want to play Taps ...

Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed wool uniform. Before him was the World War I Memorial and its lines of poetry on a granite wall. We were ...

Ralph Dudgeon has played taps hundreds of times during his 73 years. Starting when he was 11 years old, he would climb onto the East McKeesport borough firetruck at the end of the Memorial Day parade ...

Twelve days after the Missouri National Guard announced it would no longer pay for buglers to play taps at military funerals, Gov. Matt Blunt stepped in and directed the Guard to use buglers when ...

SUGAR GROVE — The playing of taps is one of the more solemn moments in a military burial ceremony. Jerry Primmer knows how solemn the moment is as he plays the piece for the Lancaster Burial Detail on ...

BOWIE, Md. — Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled many Memorial Day ceremonies, buglers are finding a different way to honor the fallen -- from home. Retired US Air Force bugler, Jari ...

In this Jan. 25, 2019, photo, music education major and trumpet student Kody Jernigan of Longview, Texas, plays "Taps," at the funeral of retired Ouachita Parish District Fire Chief Tommy "Cotton" ...

Kevin McKay is a polished performer, a guitarist and singer in two local rock bands. Now, the coronavirus stay-home order has him playing a different tune. His nightly audience listens to what one ...