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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A retired businessman has made honoring veterans a nightly tradition on Lake Minnetonka, drawing a community together through ...

Legendary trumpet player Bonny Baird, 93, salutes after playing ‘Taps’ as part of the ‘Taps Across America’ program that is observed in the U.S. and in five other countries. WILKES-BARRE — Bobby Baird ...

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 ...

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 ...