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He’s played in a variety of military-related positions ... He strongly laments that, in many services, an electronic bugle salute has replaced a live version. “There is something about ...
On a warm sunny day at Resurrection Cemetery in southwest suburban Justice, everything was in place for a military honors ceremony for World War II veteran Steven Polus. The casket was draped 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. "There is something singularly beautiful and ...
As one of the Army Band's trumpeters, Byrne plays the bugle at events around the cemetery and Military District of Washington events in the nation's capital and throughout the country. He has ...
This 24-note bugle call, known as taps, is part of military funeral honors for those who have faithfully defended our country in war and peace. In this ceremonial paying of respects, perhaps no ...
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. Taps ...
Snuggled inside the bell of his bugle is a 35-watt amplifier and computer chip that plays the mournful tune, a military standard for more than a century. The device, which costs $525 and includes ...
Wendell Adams, the group’s bugler, had performed in a military band when he was in service. When he learned that many military funerals had to rely on recordings or electronic bugles to play ...
John Schmitt is a bugle boy, though there’s no boogie woogie ... Schmitt and his peers will play taps and other military-inspired numbers in an illumination ceremony that kicks off a weekend ...
A bugler who played at the proclamation of the King in Royal Hillsborough is helping to keep centuries of military tradition alive in the Co Down village. Andrew Carlisle, 47, is the bugler for ...