It was 42 years ago now, but the sounds and sights of this military funeral still remain vivid in memory. It was the first Meeker County funeral for a victim of the Vietnam War. The rites were ...

“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 ...