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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — To honor Memorial Day, local musicians and band students from across the Lowcountry gather on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown to play Taps as part of 'Taps Across ...

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 ...

A Mound man honors veterans on Memorial Day and throughout the year. Gary Marquardt plays “Taps” at veterans’ funerals all across Minnesota. “These things happen just once in a lifetime for those ...

LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – There are different ways to honor the men and women who’ve given their lives in service to our country Traditionally, it’s the playing of Taps at military services. Sometimes ...