Taps began during the American Civil War in 1862. General Daniel Butterfield, a Union officer, felt that the standard bugle call to end the day was too harsh and lacked feeling. He worked with his ...

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The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. Taps historian ...

Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of technology. Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — ...