Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The solemn U.S. military bugle call "Taps" originated with a Union Army father finding the melody written on paper in the pocket ...

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 ...

Playing taps on a boombox at a military funeral is just not the same as having someone in a dress uniform stand at attention and blow into a brass bugle. That's why S&D Consulting, based in New York ...

Hearing taps is enough to bring tears to one’s eye. But when Moore Girl Scout member Katie Prior heard that the mournful, 24-note melody is often played from a sound system at veterans’ funerals, she ...

U.S. Army veteran Eldon Baker didn’t want a traditional funeral service. It seemed the local Vietnam vet and recipient of a Purple Heart didn’t like the idea of people making a fuss over him when he ...