More than 1,000 U.S. military veterans die daily, according to Taps for Veterans. To request a bugler, go to tapsforveterans.org; while the nonprofit does not charge for its services, some buglers ...

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

Many of the nation's buglers who play at graveside services and at patriot events such as Memorial Day ceremonies are elderly veterans. As their numbers decline, the use of electronic taps ...

Taps, as the National Song of Remembrance, would join the national floral emblem (the rose), national tree (the oak) and national march (John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever”).

While it's not quite time to play "Taps" for the Army bugler, Uncle Sam is having a hard time finding enough musicians to play the ceremonial honor at an increasing number of military funerals.

They say taps is lowercase without quotations. The AP says: Lowercase the bugle call for "lights out," also sounded at military funerals. The same goes for reveille, the call to assembly for soldiers.

Horner volunteered to sound taps at military ceremonies for 25 years, believing that a recording wouldn’t do. Family and friends this week recalled his legacy of service.

Hugh Bell of Bristol Township, at 59, is the youngest member of the Guardians. When he uses the electronic bugle, it hits him how moving the music of taps is for the family of the deceased. "To me ...