When the color guard members removed the flag from the casket and stretched it out, ... Army infantry regulations by 1891 required taps to be played at military funeral ceremonies.

The history of taps, the haunting bugle call that signals “lights out” at the end of a military day and which has become a fixture at patriotic memorial ceremonies and military funerals, will ...

Her mother said the military "didn’t preserve her body or prepare her to come home" and described her as "infested with ...

As the number and frequency of military funerals continue to rise, buglers needed to perform taps are in short supply TOM LUTEY Of The Gazette Staff May 25, 2009 ...

Sunlight glinted off the tear streaming down Post Falls Post 143 Honor Guard Commander Ken Johnson's face while he presented rifle shell casings to a weeping widow.Although it was a demonstration of ...

A field of green turned red, white and blue on Saturday as more than 100 volunteers transformed the soccer fields at Seven ...

What: A volunteer group providing military funeral honors for local veterans, including folding and presenting the burial flag, firing seven M1-Garand rifles, and playing taps.

A Marine wonders: When Taps finally plays, what will my family remember about my military service? by Christopher Murphy • The War Horse May 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. May 25, 2025, 8:36 a.m. Share this: ...

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...

U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, more than 80 years after he died as a POW during World War II, was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego.