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 ...
As the solemn sound of taps echoed throughout Park Cemetery on Thursday, a crowd gathered to pay their respects to a soldier ...
Since 2005, Meyer has played taps live at more than 200 funerals and other events across a three-state area. He’s also traveled the country, joining groups of taps-playing buglers for special ...
PURVIS, Miss. (WDAM) - A 90-year-old Lamar County veteran has spent the last two decades honoring fellow veterans in a very special way. Since 2003, Howell Purvis has played live taps at 575 veteran ...
Former Army bugler and World War II veteran Elmo Johnson, 90, known for playing Taps at more than 1,000 military funerals and patritoic ceremonies died Friday, July 20. A Jackson County native, ...
Oscar ‘Rick’ Ricker photographed in Korea when he served in the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing as a Combat Air Policeman. Lauri Lavender contacted 15 military institutions on a quest to get funeral ...
Blocks away, you can hear the bugle playing Taps. Then the bagpipes echoed Amazing Grace. Besides a couple of birds chirping, that's the only sound coming out of the near-silent St. Mary's Cemetery in ...
a member of the Legion and VFW who coordinates military services with local funeral homes. Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen. Chatt also said Legion members can present ...
Josiah Inghram joined the 130th Pennsylvania Regiment in the fall of 1862, at the age of 17. He trained in Harrisburg under Col. Henry Zinn and was quickly ordered to Antietam, where his regiment saw ...