Military bugler Jari Villanueva has played "Taps" thousands of times over his 23-year Air Force career. But on Memorial Day, Villanueva is less concerned about hitting the right 24 notes of the famous ...

They are, perhaps, the 24 most recognizable musical notes ever written. They've sounded over the graves of soldiers, from privates to generals, and have laid to rest many an American president. This ...

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 ...

KEARNEY — “Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lakes, From the hills, From the sky, All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.” Ask Caleb Hardy and Bailey Premer, and the two young brass players will tell ...

There was a slightly hollow sound when taps was played at Memorial Day services this year at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. True, the notes were bell-clear, the haunting melody ...

Playing taps on a boombox at a military funeral is just not the same as having someone in a dress uniform stand at attention and blow into a brass bugle. That's why S&D Consulting, based in New York ...

Just about every day, John Hersh plays taps. He consults with an Amazon Alexa to find the perfect sunset time, then takes his bugle to the rooftop deck of his home on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island to ...

The battered old brass bugle William Miles spotted in the basement rafters when he was 12 was the beginning of a 40-year career playing taps. The short, 24-note tune adapted by a Civil War general to ...