Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On ...

An 88-year-old Spokane man played Taps for the final time this March after 25 years of performing at servicemember burials at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery.

Since the Civil War, American military forces have used the haunting 24-note bugle call, taps, as a song of remembrance. First played in 1862 to mark the end of the day or “lights out.” It now is ...

When Patricia Konyha was 14, she attended a military-honors funeral where her father, an Air Force veteran, was serving as part of an honor guard team firing a three-volley salute. When taps was ...

Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps and ...