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.
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Charlie Hughes: The Baxter Bugler By Jari Villanueva © 2026 TapsBugler At the National WWI Memorial in Washington, DC, Taps is sounded every evening at…
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…
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?
Patton and the Power of the Bugle Every evening, Gen. Patton arranged a type of communication that united all soldiers. This communication connected us with…
“A sailor usually considers himself as out of the pale of respectable society, and he longs for an opportunity to become the only thing he…
A bugle story for December 7th From “Day of Infamy” by Walter Lord“Then a plane swept by, [the barracks at Pearl Harbor] raking the line…
