Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed wool uniform. Before him was the World War I Memorial and its lines of poetry on a granite wall. We were ...
Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of technology. Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — ...
Since the Civil War, American military forces have used the haunting 24-note bugle call, taps, as a song of remembrance. First played in 1862 to mark the end of the day or “lights out.” It now is ...
FRANKLIN, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Twenty four notes played on a bugel or trumpet hold more meaning than words can say. The sound of Taps brings many people to tears. Jenn Hozempa plays it at the town ...
As the sun sets on another summer, John Hersh is wrapping up his 10th year of rooftop serenades. By Elisabeth Egan Reporting from Beach Haven, N.J. The instant the sun sinks into Barnegat Bay, the ...
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