Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

ALEDO -- The late Tom Bonynge likely would have loved the sound of ``Taps'' coming from the Mercer County VFW's new electronic bugle. Mr. Bonynge, a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, served as the ...

Daniel Butterfield could not read or write music, but he knew what he liked. A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the Civil ...

ATHENS — We’ve all heard the mournful tune taps played at ceremonies designed to honor America’s heroes, but what happens when a bugler is not available to perform? That’s where an electronic ...

A visually impaired West Fargo woman who plays taps at military funerals has started a petition to try to convince the city's Veterans of Foreign Wars club to reconsider its decision to no longer use ...

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 ...

FARGO A bugler who left West Fargo, N.D., on a sour note after the local VFW club told her it no longer required her services said she's excited about the opportunity to play taps in a different city.

If you are visiting a departed loved one in Greensburg's South Park Cemetery at dawn or dusk, you’ll hear the bugle call “Taps” played from atop the mausoleum in center of the cemetery. There is no ...

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 ...