On Monday, the somber and familiar call of “Taps” will honor military veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Trumpeters, buglers and musicians across the country will pause at 3 p.m. Monday to honor fallen U.S. military members by sounding the lights out bugle call, taps.

Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring ...

WASHINGTON — Every day a lone bugler stands at the World War I Memorial across the plaza from a statue of Army Gen. John Pershing. The bugler salutes the American flag, lifts a simple brass instrument ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — During wreath laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Byrne marches out to the Tomb, brings his bugle to his lips and ...

(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...

The 24 notes have played in the minds and hearts of families and friends since the Civil War. The notes seem to blend in with the surroundings at Rock Island National Cemetery, a melody that bonds ...

Jari Villanueva has committed decades to honoring the fallen with the bugler call of “Taps” and has spearheaded a “Taps for Veterans,” a nationwide organization that connects buglers to families and ...

Intermingled with song birds and reverent silence, 200 buglers from around the country collectively sounded America's most recognizable bugle call May 19 at Arlington National Cemetery. From Section ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The 24 notes of Taps, so familiar to the ear, are melodic yet solemn in their simplicity. Stewart Boone, a 98-year-old bugler, does not need sheet music anymore. The veteran of the ...

It woke them up and put them to bed. In between, it called them to assembly, to morning drills and to the mess hall. Years ago, the toot-toot-toot-a-toot of the bugle was as familiar on military bases ...