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Offline Pigslilspaz

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Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« on: August 20, 2010, 05:03:50 PM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2010, 05:10:04 PM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 05:14:12 PM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 05:14:39 PM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 05:31:22 PM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2010, 05:51:06 PM »
I have enough Scottish blood running through my veins that the sounds of the bagpipes beckons me to stand a bit taller and knock the *&^^%%$# out of somethin'.   :rock

Mr. Millin did his countrymen a huge service that day and Britain will be hard pressed to find a brave and crazy enough fellow to do that again.   :O

Rest in Peace.   :salute   
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2010, 08:12:50 PM »
RIP and thanks.
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2010, 01:26:08 AM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2010, 01:40:42 AM »
Wow, i was wondering if that guy was real.   :salute
That is bad-ass playing the bagpipes in a warzone. 
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2010, 07:51:34 AM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2010, 09:28:22 AM »
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Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2010, 05:53:42 PM »
<S> To the Piper in Question from the OP.



These are my first set of pipes, they were a historical set from the regiment that my first pipe band was from.  They were at the Battle of the Somme, a very famous battle in WW 1 for us Canadians.

The silver and ivory are real on these pipes, so moving them from place to place across borders is a huge PITA, due to customs loving elephants or something or other...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OpVfBenW60&feature=related

The above is something I was a part of, although many, MANY years before 2008.  Reading the OP article brought back memories of this, so that's my <S> I guess.

http://piobaire.com/page10.html  - Some brief descriptions of the effects Pipers had in action during war.



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