Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pictured is a reproduction of a Civil War-era bugle similar to the one that would have been used by Cambridge Township native ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Military memorials would not be complete without a bugler playing taps. In Stockton, Rick Caccam is the area’s go-to guy when a ...
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 ...
Decades ago, the U.S. Defense Department provided riflemen and a live bugler for the funerals of American service veterans. In recent years, the Pentagon's abi ...
As the sun begins to set, the melancholy sound of a bugler playing "Taps" echoes off the old brick buildings on the town square in Martinsville, Indiana. A small crowd, mostly comprised of veterans ...
A Navy veteran has made it his mission to honor fallen military service members by playing taps on his bugle at their funerals.After attending a funeral service for a fallen soldier where the ...
Trumpeter John Massari of South Greensburg can’t say for certain how many times he’s performed taps with the VFW Post 33 Honor Guard in Greensburg. But considering Massari, 79, has performed “on and ...
World War II veterans are dying at the rate of 1,800 a day, each one entitled to a proper military funeral, if their family requests it. But the military is having a problem fulfilling one crucial ...
BRISTOL, Va. - It is a tradition that is slowly fading away, but one bugler will not let it die on his watch. Bugler Tom Johnson tells News 5 he missed being drafted into the war by seven days and was ...
You're walking to your car on base when, out of nowhere, music starts blaring. You see service members stop and turn to "face the music." You panic, unsure of what to do, while also silently yelling ...
Military memorials would not be complete without a bugler playing taps. In Stockton, Rick Caccam is the area’s go-to guy when a musician is needed for that timeless tune. Caccam is a retired San ...
The military has used dozens of different bugle calls over the years to mark the time of day and to direct troop activities. Most of them are unfamiliar to the average person. However, it would be ...