A Living History Weekend will be held at the National World War One Memorial on Saturday and Sunday September 14-15, 2024 The Memorial is located…
Posts published in “General Interest”
Happy Birthday to our 30th President Calvin Coolidge, the only president born on July 4-Independence Day. In 1926 he spoke about the importance of the…
Baseball and The Star-Spangled-Banner It is performed at the start of every professional sports contest. Played by instrumentalists or sung by vocalists, it has become…
The 4th Annual sounding of Taps during the National Moment of Remembrance on Memorial Day at 3 p.m. TAPS ACROSS AMERICA 2023 Registration is open…
Taps Vs. The Last PostA look at two iconic bugle calls Of all the bugle signals sounded in the world, the two that stand out…
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?
It has been custom, when welcoming a visitor of high profile, that musical honors are paid to the person’s rank or status and to the…
This is the hollywood re-creation of a scene that happened at Pearl Harbor. Ship musicians of the USS Nevada were playing the “Star Spangled Banner”…
