SHAVERTOWN — Renowned trumpet player Bobby Baird of Shavertown participated in “Taps Across America” on Memorial Day, playing the tribute to America’s fallen heroes on his front porch. Jim Kupstas, ...

MANKATO — Motorists near Mulberry and Second Street Sunday morning may spot a lone musician standing at attention in the Veterans Memorial Park near the credit union. Passersby there after 11 a.m.

Renowned trumpet player Bobby Baird, 91, of Shavertown, played a few more patriotic songs after he sounded ‘Taps’ Monday as part of ‘Taps Across America,’ an international event to honor fallen war ...

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 ...

Thousands of musicians — civilians, veterans, teenagers, retirees — are playing taps at military funerals in a rebuke of ...

May 25—CHAMPAIGN — Music has always been a big part of Logan Parks' life. Singing Disney songs and taking piano lessons as a kid kick-started a path for the 2021 Champaign Central graduate to excel as ...

Playing the trumpet has enabled Bob Altomondo to meet President John F. Kennedy, travel the world and, on Monday afternoon, entertain his neighbors and honor veterans. Altomondo, 75, invited the Sun ...

CAMDEN, S.C. — A Camden man said he wanted to make sure service men and women were not forgotten this Memorial Day as memorial ceremonies across the state were canceled due to coronavirus. William ...

As Memorial Day ceremonies take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery, there's one man that's honoring the fallen in his own way. It's a way many soldiers have never been honored before. For eight ...