May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps ...

Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps and ...

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 — a chilling, 24-note ...

GLOUCESTER TWP. - Twenty yards from a mourning military family, a lone bugler sounds taps, the military "lights out" bugle call some consider the most meaningful 24 notes in American musical history.

I played Taps for my fallen brothers-in-arms after a kamikaze pilot attacked our ship during World War II. I now play it every year on Memorial Day. As told to Jake ...

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Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...

At its heart, the military bugle call taps is a tune of comfort. Even when sounded at the most solemn time — the funeral of a fallen soldier or sailor — it’s meant to assure: The day is done, it’s ...