Charlie Hughes: The Baxter Bugler By Jari Villanueva © 2026 TapsBugler At the National WWI Memorial in Washington, DC, Taps is sounded every evening at…
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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,…
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…
