Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring veterans, military retirees and active-duty personnel. Allen Moon, of Gansevoort ...

KEARNEY, Neb. — A band instructor at Kearney High School is recruiting students to help fill the need for buglers at military funerals. Rick Mitchell discovered the shortage after performing at ...

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes. He always finishes with taps ...

About a dozen times over the last two years, Jack Bumann has gone to cemeteries in western Illinois to help honor military veterans he never met. A high school trumpet player in the small town of ...

Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play taps at veterans' funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. "A lot of people get a ...

Hundreds of American veterans die each day and each of them unquestionably earned the honor of having “Taps” played during their burial ceremony as a final tribute for their sacrifice. “It's the most ...

For Jena Pennington Memorial Day was never just another day. In her eyes, it is a day to honor fallen veterans who died giving their service to the United States military. But five years ago, her ...