Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed wool uniform. Before him was the World War I Memorial and its lines of poetry on a granite wall. We were ...

May 22—MOULTRIE — In addition to the traditional Memorial Day service at Cobb Suncrest Memorial Gardens at 9 a.m. Monday, two other events will honor those who died in the line of duty. At 10:30, ...

“I feel like it’s my way of giving back...Anytime I’m asked to do it, I will gladly do it." IBERIA PARISH (NEW IBERIA) — From a tune that signals lights-out, to a military funeral hymn, 'Taps' holds a ...

Co-host Esai Morales introduces "Taps" on the 2025 National Memorial Day Concert. In honor of the fallen and their families, U.S. Marine Corps SSgt. James McAloon performs the bugle call signal “Taps” ...

SOUNDING OUT IN PITTSBURGH’S NORTH HILLS. LOCAL STUDENTS TAKING PART IN TAPS ACROSS AMERICA. THEY ARE PART OF THOUSANDS NATIONWIDE, PAUSING TO HONOR AND REFLECT. HERE’S PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR ...

U.S. Army bugler SGM Matt Byrne performs "Taps" on the 2024 National Memorial Day Concert. In honor of the fallen and their families, U.S. Army SGM Matt Byrne performs the bugle call signal "Taps" on ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – On Memorial Day, Fleet Farm stores across the Midwest and northeast Wisconsin joined the national Taps Across America tribute to honor fallen U.S. service members. At exactly 3 ...

That's 95 year old Sam Mandanello on the trumpet playing taps every Memorial Day. He plays the song at 3 p.m., taking part in taps across America. All over America, uh, at 3 o'clock, uh, people are ...

Bethlehem hosted its annual Memorial Day parade on Monday in one of several Lehigh Valley events that brought residents, veterans, active military and community groups together to remember those who ...

Just as we have on previous Memorial Days, my wife and I will play taps Monday in a small-town cemetery. Our habit began after reading an editorial about Americans losing sight of the holiday’s ...

The history of taps, the haunting bugle call that signals “lights out” at the end of a military day and which has become a fixture at patriotic memorial ceremonies and military funerals, will be the ...

BEDFORD -- Overlooking the National D-Day Memorial, Vaughn Roberts holds his valve trombone firmly in his hands. He plays taps, he concludes and then he crosses one more stop off his list. "My journey ...