A soldier's day once was regulated by bugle calls. "Answer the bugle call" came to describe citizens responding to a national threat. President John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do ...

AFTER darkness has fallen on these autumn nights, the bugler’s call is more evident. The wind must be just right, but the sound of “Taps” is eerily clear floating across the Mississippi River. For ...

Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...