That's 95 year old Sam Mandanello on the trumpet playing taps every Memorial Day. He plays the song at 3 p.m., taking part in taps across America. All over America, uh, at 3 o'clock, uh, people are ...

Twenty four notes played on a bugel or trumpet hold more meaning than words can say. The sound of Taps brings many people to tears. Jenn Hozempa plays it at the town common in Franklin, Massachusetts ...

Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed wool uniform. Before him was the World War I Memorial and its lines of poetry on a granite wall. We were ...

WILKES-BARRE — At 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, you could count on Bobby Baird to play “Taps” to honor America’s fallen heroes. On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2025, “Taps” played for Baird, the renowned trumpet ...