“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 ...

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 ...