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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The playing of Taps on a bugle is perhaps one of the most recognized pieces of music, but at many veterans funerals, mourners usually hear a recording. Korean War veteran Mike Del Vecchio Sr., of ...

Logan Parks with her trumpet in front of her home Wednesday in Champaign. Logan Parks with her trumpet in front of her home Wednesday in Champaign. CHAMPAIGN — Music has always been a big part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — During wreath laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Master Sgt. Matthew Byrne marches out to the Tomb, brings his bugle to his lips and ...