A fabricated story about the U.S. military bugle call "Taps" long predates the creation of the internet. Here's the true ...

Even with their involvement, a real bugle or trumpet is used to play taps in only about 20 percent of the roughly 2,500 military funeral honors ceremonies that soldiers perform weekly across the ...

FORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico -- When I arrived to Fort Buchanan in April 2008, one of my first initiatives was to re-establish the long-standing tradition of military bugle calls to announce certain ...

But this bugle call does more than move mountains; it moves souls. This 24-note bugle call, known as taps, is part of military funeral honors for those who have faithfully defended our country in ...

5. Live buglers still perform at military members’ funerals today. If you need a taps bugler for a funeral ceremony, you can make a request at TapsForVeterans.org.

In the hands of someone like retired Army Sgt. Vernon West, the bugle is a work of art. Each week, he uses it to bid the final goodbye to American veterans.

On Friday, the last full-time U.S. Navy bugler will once again play taps aboard the battleship USS New Jersey. Bertrand Trottier Jr., of San Bernardino, is the featured speaker for the battleship ...

To address the problem, the military has approved the use of a battery-operated insert which is placed in a bugle and plays a recording of taps made by an expert military bugler at Arlington ...

He hopes that with the community’s help, he can arrange to have a bugler play at every funeral. For now, he’s glad the military is shifting more resources toward funeral duty.

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.