More than a century later, Congress recognized taps as the "National Song of Military Remembrance" through the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. "Of all the military bugle calls, ...

The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep.

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 ...

An old rumor tells of how the "Taps" military bugle song supposedly originated from a composition found in a dead soldier's pocket. Barbara Mikkelson Published Oct. 28, 2008 ...

WASHINGTON — Congress has designated Taps, the haunting 24-note bugle call that American military forces have used since the Civil War, as the National Song of Remembrance.

Intermingled with song birds and reverent silence, ... which is an organization devoted to providing a live sounding of taps at every military funeral, played at President Howard Taft's grave.

Every day since the World War I Memorial first opened back in 2021, a bugler has played “Taps” live at 5 p.m. — rain or shine.

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 ...

Taps is the original lights-out song played nightly at 22-hundred hours on military bases everywhere. It's a much happier song when played at the end of the day, Gigoux said, which is when he ...

The tune wasn’t a hymn or military cadence, it was a silly, cheerful, and wonderfully odd camp song that has since become a beloved TAPS tradition: “The Unicorn.” ...

The nonprofit organization Taps For Veterans ensures that the song of remembrance "Taps" is played by a live bugler during military funerals.

CECIL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Saturday marked Armed Forces Day, and with it came a performance by Bugles Across America.. Band members played taps, the national anthem, and other military songs at the ...