WASHINGTON — Every day a lone bugler stands at the World War I Memorial across the plaza from a statue of Army Gen. John Pershing. The bugler salutes the American flag, lifts a simple brass instrument ...
On Friday, the last full-time U.S. Navy bugler will once again play taps aboard the battleship USS New Jersey. Bertrand Trottier Jr., of San Bernardino, is the featured speaker for the battleship’s ...
The bugler said her song was a tribute to lives lost and a prayer of safety for those who remained. In 2002, Julie Neria, a volunteer bugler, donned her uniform every evening to perform “Taps” in her ...
It’s just 24 notes; not a full composition or even a song. It’s merely a bugle call. But this bugle call does more than move mountains; it moves souls. This 24-note bugle call, known as taps, is part ...
Seth M. Flint was a Union Army bugler who was present when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War. Seventy-five years later, The Saturday Evening Post ...