After parking, several family members recently climbed out of a big sport utility vehicle for a trip to the commissary. They had taken no more than 10 steps toward the front door when the Fort Knox ...
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – There are few tunes more recognizable than the solemn song that brings a close to a military funeral. Taps is only 24 notes, but the brief melody is sure to stir emotion as its ...
It’s just 24 notes; not a full composition or even a song. It’s merely a bugle call. But this bugle call does more than move mountains; it moves souls. This 24-note bugle call, known as taps, is part ...
Hundreds of American veterans die each day and each of them unquestionably earned the honor of having “Taps” played during their burial ceremony as a final tribute for their sacrifice. “It's the most ...
Today we know taps as the solemn melody played by buglers at our military funerals. But that's not how the simple, 24-note tune got its start. The origin of taps is a little fuzzy, but there's one ...
GLOUCESTER TWP. - Twenty yards from a mourning military family, a lone bugler sounds taps, the military "lights out" bugle call some consider the most meaningful 24 notes in American musical history.
LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- If you don't know him by name, you certainly know him by sound. Steve Buttleman, Churchill Downs' and the Kentucky Derby's official bugler, is the man behind one of the most ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Leading Aircraftman Sean Rankin is a softly spoken man. But on Thursday his bugle will sound loud and clear across Anzac Cove when he ...
“All wars end; even this war will some day end, and . . . When the trenches are filled in, and the plough has gone over them, the ground will not long keep the look of war.” — John Masefield, “The Old ...
The successful candidate will become one of seven buglers who sound a traditional trumpet call from the tower of the city’s St Mary’s Church. The vacancy opened up following the retirement of a team ...
Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...