Eddie Ludema performed "Taps" at many SALUTE! concerts in Columbus over the past decade. Submitted photo It’s composed of only four different notes, performed in a prescribed rhythm in military ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Dudgeon has played taps hundreds of times during his 73 years. Starting when he was 11 years old, he would climb onto the East McKeesport borough firetruck at the end of the Memorial Day parade ...

When Katie Prior went to her great-grandfather's funeral, she discovered some veterans get recordings of 'taps' rather than a live player. A 15-year-old girl who believes no veteran should get a ...

At 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, three Crosby trumpet players walked outside and played a somber refrain in memory of those who paid the ultimate price for this country. The 24-note tune is the mournful ...

FIRST, YOU should know that Anthony VanCampen did not set out to be a bugler. He was working on the destroyer Berkeley in 1989 when the chief engineer of the ship, the man who had played taps for ...

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 ...

Memorial Day may look a little different this year, but it sure sounded amazing. A group called Taps for Veterans planned a national moment of remembrance called "Taps Across America." The goal was to ...

Taps is instantly recognizable as the somber 24-note bugle call played at American military funerals and ceremonies. Hartman and Villanueva hope that the nationwide event, now in its second year, will ...