That's 95 year old Sam Mandanello on the trumpet playing taps every Memorial Day. He plays the song at 3 p.m., taking part in taps across America. All over America, uh, at 3 o'clock, uh, people are ...

As Memorial Day ceremonies take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery, there's one man that's honoring the fallen in his own way. It's a way many soldiers have never been honored before. For eight ...

May 25—CHAMPAIGN — Music has always been a big part of Logan Parks' life. Singing Disney songs and taking piano lessons as a kid kick-started a path for the 2021 Champaign Central graduate to excel as ...

Larry Kingsley played the trumpet in his high school marching band and when he was in the Air Force during the 1960s. So, when in 2020, he heard about the Taps Across America challenge ­— a call for ...

“I feel like it’s my way of giving back...Anytime I’m asked to do it, I will gladly do it." IBERIA PARISH (NEW IBERIA) — From a tune that signals lights-out, to a military funeral hymn, 'Taps' holds a ...

Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed wool uniform. Before him was the World War I Memorial and its lines of poetry on a granite wall. We were ...

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- You'd be hard-pressed to find 18-year-old Aidan without his trumpet, whether he is sitting bedside at the VA, playing taps at a military funeral, or touring with the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — William Russell, 16, is a Boy Scout who can play a trumpet. Those happen to be two qualities (service and music) that make him the perfect candidate for the Taps For Tuition ...

Harrison Dunlap and Abby Blosser, trumpet players from Edmond Memorial High School, participated in the Taps for Veterans training Saturday in Tulsa. Veteran families may now request the ...

Thomas Eder Jr. has been playing the trumpet since sixth grade. He's been playing "Taps" at military funerals since eighth grade. And he doesn't do this just because he likes to play. "This I feel is ...

Self-taught trumpeter Ricardo Lazaro has plenty of reasons to toot his own horn. From the top, the San Antonio teen has been attached to the instrument since he first picked it up around age 6. Most ...

THOMPSON, N.D. -- Whether fingering the plaintive strains of taps or jazzing it up like Louis Armstrong, playing the trumpet is a blast for James Kerzman. He recently returned from attending the ...