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Few things touch my soul more than the somber notes of TAPS beside the graves of veterans I’m burying. Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I was laying to rest a longtime friend. The honor guard ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

Richard Grogan slipped on white gloves before lifting his bugle from its case. Built to the 74-year-old Army reservist and Navy veteran’s liking, the 4-year-old brass instrument has been Grogan’s ...

A Navy veteran has made it his mission to honor fallen military service members by playing taps on his bugle at their funerals.After attending a funeral service for a fallen soldier where the ...

Gary Edmondson first took up his horn to play “Taps” at a military funeral in 1946. He’ll play it again at a funeral service scheduled over the Fourth of July weekend as the 81-year-old veteran has ...

There is a shortage of people players to play taps at military funerals. Funeral honor guards have increasingly used prerecorded versions often played in the speaker that fits inside a vehicle. The ...

ELWOOD, Ill. — Retired Marine Cpl. Ed Crobie trudges through the snowdrifts with his bugle, anxious to start his day and reach the funeral site at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. A nearby ...

Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...

A Navy veteran has made it his mission to honor fallen military service members by playing taps on his bugle at their funerals.After attending a funeral service for a fallen soldier where the ...

He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more than 15 years He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more than 15 years He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more ...