The untimely death of Willie Morris makes reading his final novel, "Taps," a bittersweet farewell. Taking its title from the mournful tune used to conclude military funerals, "Taps" is a swan song ...

Eddie Ludema performed "Taps" at many SALUTE! concerts in Columbus over the past decade. Submitted photo It’s composed of only four different notes, performed in a prescribed rhythm in military ...

Schneider, a World War II veteran, historian and author of the book "TAPS: Notes from a Nation's Heart." At Harrison's Landing at the end of a day, Butterfield ordered Norton to play the original ...

Daniel Butterfield could not read or write music, but he knew what he liked. A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the ...

A Marine Corps veteran in Wichita volunteers his time to play what many call the hardest 24 notes a musician will ever play...taps. Few melodies are as easily recognized or emotional as the tune ...

McKee notes the buglers play "live Taps" whereas most use a bugle with an MP3 recording. "When you use the digital, it's playing 'Taps,'" McKee said. "When we do it as individuals, it's sounding ...

Taps is played every night at 11 in Arlington National Cemetery. Notes linger above perfectly lined rows of gravestones that stretch as far as the eye can see, then ascend into the heavens.

I recalled hearing the same notes mixed with another widow’s painful ... Those veterans in flag-draped boxes with taps sounding over them had fulfilled their sacred oaths with stainless honor.