The asp came back to bite him in the flag. The unhinged President of the United States, who reignited a dormant NFL flag controversy to divert attention away from the chaos and tragedy of his ...

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 ...

FORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico -- When I arrived to Fort Buchanan in April 2008, one of my first initiatives was to re-establish the long-standing tradition of military bugle calls to announce certain ...

The centenary of the death of First World War poet Wilfred Owen will be marked at his graveside with the sound of a bugle he took from the battlefield. The instrument, taken from a dead German soldier ...

Somber but lilting, the music of taps echoes through the rolling hills of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery on weekdays as a bugler honors a current or former member of the armed forces being ...

I’m lying in my tent on a cold damp early September night. It’s 4 a.m. and a nearby bull elk lets out a bugle that pierces the night. A primal sound, it starts like a high-pitched squeal, then becomes ...

The most recognizable American bugle call is Taps. The haunting but eloquent tune comprised of 24 notes is a bugle call familiar to formal national observances, military funerals, wreath ceremonies ...