She now sounds a real bugle at military funerals at Washington Crossing and other cemeteries. "I only had to do (one) service to realize I'm performing a service of honor for this family," she said.

The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. Taps ...

From there, he would offer his services to render "Taps" at the funerals of military members. He did so for Dave Schindler, who gave him the mouthpiece for his bugle, and for Mr. Bowles, his teacher.

Johnson is a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America Quad Cities honor guard. He recognized the hard work of Tracy Hepner, who volunteers to play Taps for military funerals on her bugle.

The bugle call known as “taps” is thought to be a revision of a French bugle signal, called “tattoo,” that notified soldiers to cease an evening’s drinking and return to their garrisons.

Military funerals performed by New York Army and Air National Guard declined in 2023 compared to 2022.

Norton followed Butterfield's instructions, and after a few tweaks, what resulted was the U.S. military's most popular bugle call of them all: Taps.

A total of 196 elite full-time and part-time New York Army National Guard soldiers and New York Air National Guard airmen performed more than 8,700 gravesite military funerals last year, according ...

Taps has been a required part of military funerals since 1981, but since O’Brien’s funeral home didn’t have any local bugle players lined up, it purchased an electronic bugle with a ...

Other local veterans organizations plan to get their own. A New York company developed the digital bugle to address the shortage of live players and the sheer volume of military funerals.

Eight unclaimed veterans were honored in a memorial service at East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery on Thursday. Berry Funeral Home, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center and The Dignity ...