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

WASHINGTON -- Taps, the plaintive bugle call sounded at many military funerals, has earned widespread Congressional support for designation as the National Song of Remembrance. One line in a thick ...

Taps, played on the humble bugle, has been a lasting tribute to America's fallen servicemembers and veterans since the Civil War. Trained buglers who can play the somber melody, which was ...

History has recorded that taps formally replaced a French bugle call for lights out during the Civil War and was first sounded at a military burial in July of 1862.

The 150th anniversary of the U.S. military's use of the song was marked in June with rededication of the Taps Monument at Berkley Plantation, Va., where Butterfield and Norton were stationed in 1862.

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.

It seems that the music of taps, rather than where it comes from, makes the difference, said Joan Solis, who organized the funeral for her uncle, Steven Polus, 89.

The provision, which expresses the sense of Congress that taps be designated as the national song of remembrance, was sought by Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) after a retired military bugler from his ...

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Carroll founded TAPS in 1994, two years after her husband, Tom, was killed in crash of an Army C-12 transport plane in Alaska. During the nearly weeklong event, family members have opportunities ...

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

Intermingled with song birds and reverent silence, 200 buglers from around the country collectively sounded America's most recognizable bugle call May 19 at Arlington National Cemetery.