Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The owners of Tennant Funeral Home & Crematory, Dave Tennant, David Tennant, and Justin Tennant ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

Volunteers play 'Taps' at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery every summer, honoring fallen soldiers with a live performance.

Gary Edmondson first took up his horn to play “Taps” at a military funeral in 1946. He’ll play it again at a funeral service scheduled over the Fourth of July weekend as the 81-year-old veteran has ...

He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more than 15 years He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more than 15 years He's been playing taps to honor fallen soldiers for more ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- "Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, God is nigh..." The words from "Taps" may not be readily familiar but the tune ...

Few things touch my soul more than the somber notes of TAPS beside the graves of veterans I’m burying. Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I was laying to rest a longtime friend. The honor guard ...

Tom Day of Berwyn feared the 24 notes that make up "Taps" were endangered because the military does not have enough buglers to play at the funerals of the 1,800 veterans who die each day. The ...

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...

The 21 gun salute - followed by Taps. There is perhaps nothing more haunting, more moving. "My dad and everyone who has ever served has heard those notes played under dire circumstances," said Vince ...

ELWOOD, Ill. — Retired Marine Cpl. Ed Crobie trudges through the snowdrifts with his bugle, anxious to start his day and reach the funeral site at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. A nearby ...