Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first veteran to be buried on a cloudless day at Washington Crossing National Cemetery was Alan Clark. Jim McDevitt, 84, in ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- "Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, God is nigh..." The words from "Taps" may not be readily familiar but the tune ...

KEARNEY, Neb. — A band instructor at Kearney High School is recruiting students to help fill the need for buglers at military funerals. Rick Mitchell discovered the shortage after performing at ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

A military band plays a reverent march, leading six horses as they pull a flag-draped casket through tree-lined lanes of Arlington National Cemetery. A team of soldiers transfers the casket from the ...

FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. — When the fabric of America, star-spangled, is presented in a tight, triangular fold. When the grand, old flag is carried on a casket and set down by pallbearers, and when the ...