“To be able to play taps on a trumpet that was actually used to do that very same thing 75 years ago when it was still a battle zone -- that’s really meaningful to me,” said Longhorn Alumni ...

When he started playing the trumpet at 10 years old, he seemed to display a natural talent. And when Hayes entered high school, a teacher asked him for a favor: to play taps at a military funeral.

SFPD patrolman Mark Lundin with his trumpet at the Bayview station in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, May 13, 2010. He has been playing Taps on the trumpet at all police funerals and ...

An Illinois man beat the coronavirus, and his family is crediting his trumpet. Not only did Dave Navarro recover, but the Moline resident also was able to play “Taps” at his father’s funeral ...

CBS After a few quick adjustments to his trumpet, he plays taps for his father, a former soldier who is buried here. In 2015, that was the extent of his plan.