WASHINGTON - Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays Taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips. Only 500 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rev. Bob Dahlen recalls the first time he was asked to play taps at a funeral. He was a teenager living in International Falls when he got a call to go to the principal’s office. The band director ...

LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One Hendricks County, Indiana, man is making sure families feel especially honored on Memorial Day if one of their loved ones who served in the military has been laid to rest ...

In this Jan. 25, 2019, photo, music education major and trumpet student Kody Jernigan of Longview, Texas, plays "Taps," at the funeral of retired Ouachita Parish District Fire Chief Tommy "Cotton" ...

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 ...

A trumpeter drew his horn to his lips and blew a mournful "Taps" at a funeral last week at Calverton National Cemetery for an Army veteran awarded the Silver Star for a World War II raid in Italy.

CHICAGO (CBS) – One of America's most recognizable bugle calls, one that will be heard again and again in towns big and small on this Memorial Day, reaches a major milestone this year. This is the ...

Funerals are not something I attend for fun. The two words are, after all, pretty much antonyms. It is a fact that often funerals are the only occasion at which I get to see many of my relatives these ...