MATTHEWS, N.C. — A U.S. Army veteran in Matthews continues to play “Taps” from his front porch each day at sunset. Don Woodside, a former reservist, plays a bugle that has a remarkable history. The ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Six 14-year-old Scouts from Troop 600 paid respects to a fallen military service member, who died at their age, during the Revolutionary War in Guilford County. On Memorial Day, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

WASHINGTON — Every day a lone bugler stands at the World War I Memorial across the plaza from a statue of Army Gen. John Pershing. The bugler salutes the American flag, lifts a simple brass instrument ...

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 ...

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 ...

(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...

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 ...

With the nearly night sky at his back, Everett’s Kevin McKay raised a plastic cup for a toast — “So here’s to hope” — then brought the horn to his lips. And like he’s done every evening for a year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On ...