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At 3 p.m. (local) on Memorial Day thousands of participants will be spread out across our nation to sound the 24 notes of our most solemn bugle call, Taps. Share Revise or correct this event listing ...

The bugle call's 24 notes were composed by a man from Utica — then 31-year-old Brigadier Gen. Daniel Adams Butterfield, with an assist from his bugler, 23-year-old Pvt. Oliver Norton.