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 ...

FRANKLIN, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Twenty four notes played on a bugel or trumpet hold more meaning than words can say. The sound of Taps brings many people to tears. Jenn Hozempa plays it at the town ...

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 ...

SUGAR GROVE — The playing of taps is one of the more solemn moments in a military burial ceremony. Jerry Primmer knows how solemn the moment is as he plays the piece for the Lancaster Burial Detail on ...

You might say Nina Pedersen is a one-man-band. As the music director for the Calistoga Junior-Senior High School music program, she is also its teacher, fundraiser, and events organizer. But when it ...

Renowned trumpet player Bobby Baird, 91, of Shavertown, played a few more patriotic songs after he sounded ‘Taps’ Monday as part of ‘Taps Across America,’ an international event to honor fallen war ...

Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. “A lot of people get a ...

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 ...

Elmer Hayes of Wisconsin first learned how to play as a favor for a teacher. — -- For decades, trumpet player Elmer Hayes has been honoring fallen service members with taps. Hayes, 91, knows the ...

Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II in 1944. This year, local musician Kenny Bierschenk is preparing to play taps at a ...