March 30 is National Pencil Day. In the grand museum of human achievement, the pencil sits quietly in the corner, unsharpened, waiting patiently to be…
Taps Bugler: Jari Villanueva
Taps is the name of the final call of the evening in the United States military. Learn more about the history and meaning of Taps in this article.
Charlie Hughes: The Baxter Bugler By Jari Villanueva © 2026 TapsBugler At the National WWI Memorial in Washington, DC, Taps is sounded every evening at…
Learning to play the bugle. How do I start? Where do I get a bugle? Every week I receive an email from someone interested in…
WISH TO HONOR A VETERAN? Honor a beloved veteran with a special tribute of ‘Taps’ at the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. Those beautiful,…
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.…
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…
