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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

The tune was adopted by the Confederate army as well. Today, "Taps" signals the conclusion of military funerals, wreath-laying ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and ceremonies on the ...

He always finishes with taps — a chilling, 24-note salute that is traditionally played by a lone bugler or trumpeter at funerals of U.S. military veterans. It is the only song the 49-year-old ...

This Memorial Day, people came to Washington, D.C. to honor and reflect on the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who have died protecting our country. At 5 p.m. on Memorial Day, many heard ...

As the children joined in singing and acting out the song’s lyrics ... and are reminders that their military family always remembers its own. Because TAPS receives no federal funding, Good ...

That often unrecognized facet of war comes out in the song “The War After the War,” which taps the feelings of the military spouses Gauthier wrote with: “Who’s going to care for the ones ...