The most recognizable American bugle call is Taps. The haunting but eloquent tune comprised of 24 notes is a bugle call familiar to formal national observances, military funerals, wreath ceremonies ...

After parking, several family members recently climbed out of a big sport utility vehicle for a trip to the commissary. They had taken no more than 10 steps toward the front door when the Fort Knox ...

A soldier's day once was regulated by bugle calls. "Answer the bugle call" came to describe citizens responding to a national threat. President John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do ...

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 ...

May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps ...

Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...

The bugle that sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade was used yesterday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the infamous military blunder. On the slopes overlooking the Valley of Death, a bugler ...