Les W. Hart, 80, has played taps for nearly 500 veterans’ funerals as part of his volunteerism with the Blair County Honor Guard. “There’s something about hearing a live trumpet,” said ...

Steve Pederson, a 23-year resident of Eden Prairie, has played trumpet since the fifth grade in Marshall, Minn. He remembers playing “Taps” at dozens of funerals 40 years ago. Pederson was among ...

“You think of all the people that have sacrificed.” Taps is something Mehl thinks he has played on his trumpet close to a thousand times. Now at age 90, he said performing it always is a ...