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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.
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.
Tracy Hepner has played Taps on her bugle for thousands of military funerals for nearly two decades. To stream News 8 on your phone, you need the News 8 app. Download the News 8 app.
The bugle call known as “taps” is thought to be a revision of a French bugle signal, ... Army infantry regulations by 1891 required taps to be played at military funeral ceremonies.
Norris Buchter, 80, raised the shimmering brass bugle to his lips ... A New York company developed the digital bugle to address the shortage of live players and the sheer volume of military funerals.
Adam Mouton a member of the Acadiana Veterans Honor Guard holds a bugle while they National Antham is played during Memorial Day Services at Fountain Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery on Monday ...
Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield not only earned a Medal of Honor while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, but he also is responsible for the bugle call we know as 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 ...
(Marc Lester / ADN) Gene Horner sounds taps on his bugle during a military funeral ceremony at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on September 21, 2017. (Marc Lester / ADN file) ...
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 ...