I read with interest the editorial about using a live bugler at military funerals. My husband is a humble man. He is an 88-year-old veteran of World War II. He does not ask for much, but his one ...

NIGEL: DURING THESE TIMES OF SOCIAL DISTANCING, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR VETERANS TO GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE WHEN THEY PASS AWAY. HONOR GUARDS CANNOT TAKE PART IN PROVIDING MUSIC FOR GRAVESIDE ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

Playing taps on a boombox at a military funeral is just not the same as having someone in a dress uniform stand at attention and blow into a brass bugle. That's why S&D Consulting, based in New York ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — During wreath laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Byrne marches out to the Tomb, brings his bugle to his lips and ...

Bugler Wendell Adams performs taps at Rocklane Cemetery during the Memorial Day program hosted by the Greenwood and Whiteland Veterans Of Foreign Wars and the Greenwood American Legion Post 252 in ...

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 ...

Few things touch my soul more than the somber notes of TAPS beside the graves of veterans I’m burying. Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I was laying to rest a longtime friend. The honor guard ...

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At Michael’s funeral, Meyer, together with his wife Shelley and other family members, “assumed there was bugler there,” he said, adding that they heard the notes of taps coming from somewhere behind ...