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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...