An 88-year-old Spokane man played Taps for the final time this March after 25 years of performing at servicemember burials at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery.

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 ...

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 ...