FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska (September 21, 2012) Fort Wainwright and surrounding communities may have noticed recently that traditional U.S. Army bugle calls are now audible throughout the day starting at ...
Perhaps the most poignant and distinctive melody ever composed is the one that marks the close of day at American military bases and is played at military funerals and memorial observances. The ...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — The bugle possesses a rich military history older than the United States of America. Since long before radios, satellites and the internet, bugles have been an instrument used ...
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 ...
It woke them up and put them to bed. In between, it called them to assembly, to morning drills and to the mess hall. Years ago, the toot-toot-toot-a-toot of the bugle was as familiar on military bases ...
(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...