GOODRIDGE, Minn.- The Rev. Bob Dahlen recalls the first time he was asked to play taps at a funeral. He was a teenager living in International Falls when he got a call to go to the principal’… ...

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

William Charles Russell Major, who goes by the nickname ‘Rusty,’ has been playing ‘Taps’ at ceremonies, memorials, funerals, and other events for 15 years.

Mel Schroeder, owner of Schroeder & Sites Funeral Homes in Northwood and St. Ansgar, north of Mason City, gives recently departed veterans a final send-off by playing Taps.

IBERIA PARISH (NEW IBERIA) — From a tune that signals lights-out, to a military funeral hymn, 'Taps' holds a lot of significance when it comes to the history of the military.

Gary Edmondson first took up his horn to play “Taps” at a military funeral in 1946. He’ll play it again at a funeral service scheduled over the Fourth of July weekend as the 81-year-old ...

He served at about 75 funerals last year and played taps at about 50 of them. Coates, 53, is a Navy veteran who works full time as a welder and metal fabricator.

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.

There are at least three national groups created to match brass-playing volunteers with veterans’ funerals. Bugles Across America , formed in 2000, has 5,000 members who have played at 125,000 ...

Sparked by urging from Bumann, a state law will go into effect Jan. 1 requiring public schools in Illinois to excuse students in grades 6 to 12 from classes so they can play taps at military ...

I was never in the military, but I actually got to play Taps at a funeral once while I was in high school. My main instrument in band was the French horn, but in marching season I would play trumpet ...

But of the group's more than 170 members, only about 40 are able to play taps. The rest are either taking lessons from volunteers or are awaiting the resources to buy instruments they can play.