As a former trumpet player with the U.S. Army, retired Sgt. 1st Class Gerald Rich is deeply familiar with the bugle call ...
POWELL — With the flags lowered to half staff and the audience silenced by the honor guard’s three-volley salute with M1 Garands to commemorate Veterans Day, Tom Bibbey broke the silence with the ...
Bill Diehm was 8 years old, living above his grandfather’s hardware store on Susquehanna Street, when he watched his hometown transform from Mauch Chunk to Jim Thorpe. Now, nearly seven decades later, ...
Dorothy Davis recalled how her father, the late Joseph P. Chickirda, was quite a humble man. And that’s probably why he never boasted about how he played “Taps” on his bugle — not once, but twice — at ...
SYRACUSE, Ind. (WNDU) - At Lake Wawasee in Syracuse, a tradition is growing one note at a time. Photojournalist Katy Snodgrass has this story. “Taps across the water at dusk. More than 70 Buglers play ...
Phil Becker, director of the Iola City Band, plays Taps at Monday’s Memorial Day service. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN Phil Becker’s Memorial Day address departed from the traditional. A trombonist, Becker ...
A rifle volley and the sound of bagpipes marked a somber ceremony Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles, where city leaders and Los Angeles Police Department brass honored hundreds of officers who have ...
City leaders and Los Angeles Police Department brass will be on hand this week with family members of some of the 241 officers who died in the line of duty for an annual memorial ceremony featuring a ...