In the days before portable alarm clocks and electronic wake-up services, Soldiers depended on a system of bugle calls to let them know about what time of the day it was. Think of it as a ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Jan. 13 2016) -- Bugle calls have been an important tradition to the U.S. Army since its inception, dating back to pre-Revolutionary War times. Installations around the world ...

Filled with swing-era chestnuts like “Bugle Call Rag,” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and a particularly pretty rendition of “I’ll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time.” Dripping ...

“I thought about the trumpet player on the Benny Goodman record of ‘Bugle Call Rag,’ ” Hay said on her website. “He opened with an upbeat, but softer version of the reveille call to rise ...

The hauntingly eloquent and mournful bugle call known as taps was composed and first played in the summer of 1862. Union Gen. Daniel Adams Butterfield, with the help of a brigade bugler he had ...

A soldier's day once was regulated by bugle calls. "Answer the bugle call" came to describe citizens responding to a national threat. President John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do ...

After he had repeatedly railed against professional athletes over perceived slights to the American flag and military, President Trump joked on Wednesday about a bugle call that is part of the ...

To prepare for the day he’d been waiting for, John Blair donned a white and black service uniform. He polished his silver trumpet, the one he first played back in 1985 as a high school junior.

Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than “Taps.” Across the United States today, services are being held to honor the courageous men and ...

So we come to taps, the military bugle call. A post this week talked about how taps gets a singular verb even though it looks plural. A commenter said taps is the name of a song and should be ...