WASHINGTON -- Taps, the plaintive bugle call sounded at many military funerals, has earned widespread Congressional support for designation as the National Song of Remembrance. One line in a thick ...

Norton followed Butterfield's instructions, and after a few tweaks, what resulted was the U.S. military's most popular bugle call of them all: Taps ... melancholy type of song to them, a way ...

and it became a standard component of U.S. military funerals in 1891. Butterfield died in 1901, and Taps was played at his funeral. No one knows who wrote the words, but I’d appreciate it if you ...

The haunting melody, we now know as 'Taps' used at military funerals was born ... to 'Taps' but I have never seen all the words to the song until now. I didn't even know there was more than ...

Although we have, as Americans, come to associate this song with military funerals ... became the norm that we know today. The lyrics to “Taps” were added after the original composition ...

The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for ... even though "Taps" is an official bugle call of the military, there are no official lyrics because there are many other lyrics that go with ...

The 150th anniversary of the U.S. military's use of the song was marked in June with rededication of the Taps Monument at Berkley Plantation, Va., where Butterfield and Norton were stationed in 1862.

Intermingled with song ... taps is even older than Arlington." History has recorded that taps formally replaced a French bugle call for lights out during the Civil War and was first sounded at a ...