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The opening ceremony was held Monday night, and Taps will be sounded every evening at 7 p.m. at the Soldiers' National Monument in the cemetery. "The people who fought here fought for our freedoms.
Teen Bugles Taps at Gettysburg Cemetery, Part of 100 Night Celebration Rising senior Alex Hessler, 17, is just one of the many people who volunteered to participate in "One Hundred Nights of Taps." ...
"One Hundred Nights of Taps" moves on a strict schedule. Performers have to report to the cemetery gatehouse by 6:30 p.m.
On this Memorial Day, we pause to honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. The solemn notes of Taps, played at Arlington National Cemetery, remind us of their ...
Jim McDevitt preparing to play "Taps" at Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Bucks County. He was a teenager in the 1950s who didn't play music when he accompanied a friend to a drum and ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Note: The video is from 2021. The somber notes of "Taps" will once again fill the air at the Gettysburg National Cemetery this summer, the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania ...
Yet by 1980 the demand for burial space was so great that the cemetery began building one of nine columbaria to hold some 45,000 cremated remains. Today the cemetery is the final resting place for ...
Jim McDevitt preparing to play "Taps" at Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Bucks County. He was a teenager in the 1950s who didn't play music when he accompanied a friend to a drum and ...
Today the cemetery is the final resting place for 400,000 souls. But Arlington is not just a tourist site; it's an active cemetery with dozens of funerals daily, in all their majestic solemnity.