EXCELSIOR, Minn. - Commuters are still rushing about on their way to work as a lone figure climbs a steep hill in an old cemetery. Gary Marquardt spots a flag on a grave, raises his trumpet - and ...

Elmer Hayes of Wisconsin first learned how to play as a favor for a teacher. — -- For decades, trumpet player Elmer Hayes has been honoring fallen service members with taps. Hayes, 91, knows the ...

ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – In southeast New Mexico, one man is inspiring the community around him by honoring those who have served. A Roswell veteran, who has been honoring other vets for 20 years, was ...

As Memorial Day ceremonies take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery, there's one man that's honoring the fallen in his own way. It's a way many soldiers have never been honored before. For eight ...

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 ...

“I feel like it’s my way of giving back...Anytime I’m asked to do it, I will gladly do it." IBERIA PARISH (NEW IBERIA) — From a tune that signals lights-out, to a military funeral hymn, 'Taps' holds a ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW JERSEY -- A 13-year-old Boy Scout has been playing Taps every night outside a New Jersey nursing home where more than 100 veterans have died amid the coronavirus pandemic, and over the holiday ...

And, so the Glen Rock “Taps” controversy continues. As residents await a decision on a new location for the playing of “Taps” – a compromise proposed at July’s Glen Rock Borough Council meeting – one ...

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that "Taps" will be broadcast from speakers placed at the public Glen Rock Park on Fair School Road. An earlier version of the story contained ...

YORK, Pa. — And, so the Glen Rock “Taps” controversy continues. As residents await a decision on a new location for the playing of “Taps” — a compromise proposed at July’s Glen Rock Borough Council ...