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Bugle calls have long history, still have observed purpose on Fort Knox

In the days before portable alarm clocks and electronic wake-up services, Soldiers depended on a system of bugle calls to let them know about what time of the day it was. Think of it as a grandfather ...
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MSCoE CG and CSM Send — the Bugle Call: ‘Reveille,’ ‘Retreat’ and ‘To the Color’

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 ...
southcoasttoday

Taps' bugle has a history

WASHINGTON -- When the Army's top bugler performs the 24 serene notes of taps at Ronald Reagan's burial ceremony in California Friday Long Island attorney John Vincent Bach will be watching "maybe a ...
Uticaod

The history of 'Taps,' played at countless American military ceremonies, has Utica ties

(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 ...