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Taps" is a bugle call [1] sounded to signal "lights out" at the end of a military day, and during patriotic memorial ceremonies and military funerals conducted by the United States Armed Forces. [2]
The sounding of Taps is performed by a lone bugler or an audio recording, at a distance 30 to 50 yards from the grave site while a "Final Salute" is given (in specific cases with the United States Military Academy, a muffled drum roll might accompany the bugler).
A single bugler performing "Taps" is traditionally used to give graveside honors to the deceased (the U.S. Army specifically prohibits the use of "Echo Taps").Title 10 of the United States Code establishes that funerals for veterans of the U.S. military shall "at a minimum, perform at the funeral a ceremony that includes the folding of a United States flag and presentation of the flag to the ...
Military bugle call, 'Taps,' has ties to Utica. Here's how Mohawk Valley history is intertwined with well-known call. The history of 'Taps,' played at countless American military ceremonies, has ...
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The story of how military taps came to be involves a Union Army general and his brigade bugler, Cambridge Township native Oliver Wilcox Norton. Cambridge Township Army bugler was the first person ...
A well recognized and well performed version of Taps, performed by the Army band similar to its performance of Reveille. Nominate and support. haha169 04:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC) Support this has to be the most famous bugle call in the states. Well done and free --Guerillero | My Talk 05:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Struck by the impact that the Last Post, of the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations, and Taps, of the United States, had on ceremonies and their participants, General Gouraud took the initiative to call by the head of the music of the Republican Guard, Major Pierre Dupont, and requested a composition of an appropriate bugle call.