By Jari Villanueva When the United States entered the Great War in 1917, the Boy Scouts of America were barely out of their own childhood.…
Taps Bugler: Jari Villanueva
It was the words that froze the NASA flight controllers in their seats, “Fire!, we’ve got a fire in the cockpit.” On January 27, 1967,…
An excerpt from Thirty Years After:An Artist’s Memoir of the Civil WarBy Edwin Forbes Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 -1895) was an American landscape painter and…
TRADITIONS AND USAGE The custom of honoring the dead at burials and memorial services with trumpet and bugle calls dates back to Biblical times. Ancient…
Charge! Bugle Boys’ joyful noise of Sundays pastThe Sun November 01, 1998|By JOHN STEADMAN https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-11-01-1998305113-story.html Attempting to silence the Baltimore Bugle Boys in the upper…
John Philip Sousa's Christmas Gift to the United States.
We may think of "The Stars and Stripes Forever!" around Independence Day, but did you know it was written around Christmas?
Christmas & the “Cold” War Revolutionary War Every service member remembers their first Christmas away from home. Many times during our country’s numerous wars, those…
