Jessica Schonhoff, with the East Dubuque Drum and Bugle Corps, plays ìTaps" during a Memorial Day service at Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Menominee, Ill., on Sunday, May 27, 2018. Under federal law, they are entitled to a military honors ceremony, which includes the folding and presentation of the flag and playing of "Taps," a funeral standard since 1891. But after the military faced a shortage of buglers, U.S. lawmakers in 1999 authorized the playing of a recorded version of "Taps."(Nicki Kohl/Telegraph Herald via AP)
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