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Title: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Pigslilspaz on August 20, 2010, 05:03:50 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/world/europe/20millin.html?_r=1&no_interstitial

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Tupac on August 20, 2010, 05:10:04 PM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Dichotomy on August 20, 2010, 05:14:12 PM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Masherbrum on August 20, 2010, 05:14:39 PM

 :salute (I'm a blood descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor).  

Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: BrownBaron on August 20, 2010, 05:31:22 PM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: SmokinLoon 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   

Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Maverick on August 20, 2010, 08:12:50 PM

RIP and thanks.
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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on August 21, 2010, 01:26:08 AM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: oakranger 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. 

Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: ozrocker on August 21, 2010, 07:51:34 AM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: 007Rusty on August 21, 2010, 09:28:22 AM

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Title: Re: Scottish D-Day Bagpiper Dies at 88
Post by: Gman on August 21, 2010, 05:53:42 PM

<S> To the Piper in Question from the OP.

(http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/086516415aa173af6127a43e5b10e86c6g.jpg)

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