Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...

(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 ...

JACKSONVILLE — Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than “Taps.” Across the United States today, services are being held to honor the courageous ...

The somber 24 notes of "Taps" brings closure at the burial of American service personnel. "Taps" is a tradition, but real buglers are difficult to find for services at Rock Island National Cemetery, a ...

At some homes and neighborhoods across the Williamsburg area, the celebrated and emotional bugle call of “Taps” was heard at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon as part of “Taps Across America,” a growing ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Taps Across America will again honor military members who died in service to our nation and you can take part. At 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day thousands of participants will be ...

Lexington’s Maria Cue has lived a stone’s throw from Hanscom Air Force Base, a military installation where more than 10,000 people live and work, for decades. That means the regular hum of planes ...