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 ...
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 men and women ...
Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At some homes and neighborhoods across the Williamsburg area, the celebrated and emotional bugle call of “Taps” was heard at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon as part of “Taps Across America,” a growing ...
(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 ...
Kevin McKay, who’s in a rock band, marked the pandemic year by blowing his horn at Grand Avenue Park. With the nearly night sky at his back, Everett’s Kevin McKay raised a plastic cup for a toast — ...
CABOT, Pa. — The keen of bagpipes, a three-volley gun salute and a bugle sounding taps pierced the air of a small Pennsylvania town on Friday as hundreds gathered to honor an ex-fire chief who was ...