Relatives, soldiers and airmen gather for the funeral of 1st Lt. George F. "Frankie" Wilson — a native Utahn who was killed ...

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.

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.

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

The volunteer group has presented at nearly 1,500 events in the past ten years, offering full military funeral honors, pinning ceremonies to veterans in hospice care and color guard presentations.

Taps sounds for Gene Horner, who spent decades honoring Alaska veterans with his bugle Horner volunteered to sound taps at military ceremonies for 25 years, believing that a recording wouldn’t do.

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 ...

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.

During the height of the pandemic, when no honor guards were permitted at funerals, Stephen Goshorn was there. Off at a safe distance from the mourners, he came to attention, raised his bugle and ...

Members of the Patriot Guard salute during a military funeral for Vietnam veteran Glenn Cook, who had no known family, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022.

1. The famous bugle call played at military funerals is ingrained as music of mourning, but it also served as a lights-out signal to soldiers at night.