One of the projects I’ve been involved with over the past several months is The Military Bugler-The Complete Guide to Bugling. The work is finished,…
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You hear this iconic trumpet (bugle) call at the racetrack. It’s a short call sounded as the horses are about to be led to the…
William Donald Schaefer, His Final Farewell:A Look Back at his Funeral Services By Jari Villanueva© 2016 Jari Villanueva, Taps Bugler Originally published April 2016-updated April…
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.…
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?
“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 History of the YMCA in the Great War By Jay Callaham These days, we think of the YMCA as a nice gym, maybe with…
January can bring very cold weather to the Washington, D.C. area. Therefore, every four years, predicting the temperatures becomes a challenge. The forecasted snow and…
