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Fun and games for Dunoon with 2013 Cowal Highland Gathering
Argyll News ^
| 31 August 2013
Posted on 09/01/2013 4:53:05 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa
The final day of the 2013 Cowal Highland Gathering saw hordes all over the Dunoon Stadium and the town, arriving by ferry, by car and on foot. And the weather played fair.
With the big results to come today in the highland dancing and pipe band competitions, everywhere you looked there were pipe bands tuning up and practising their entrance marching in unison. Above is the Kelty and Blairadam pipe band in a very well synchronised march, given that the band members in the visible line are of very different heights.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
09/01/2013 4:53:52 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: ConorMacNessa
Ah Dunoon....brings back many memories for Cold War Boomer sailors.
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:13:48 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Bryanw92
Indeed, SSBN599 from 68 through 72
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posted on
09/01/2013 5:39:13 PM PDT
by
JAKraig
(Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
To: JAKraig
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posted on
09/01/2013 6:06:31 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Bryanw92
lived in Dunoon, from 1963 to 1966, USS Hunley brought my husband and his family there..
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posted on
09/01/2013 6:36:49 PM PDT
by
JoanneSD
To: JoanneSD
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posted on
09/01/2013 6:41:28 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
exactly, my daughter was born in Dunoon..
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posted on
09/01/2013 6:54:44 PM PDT
by
JoanneSD
To: JoanneSD
A pal from Minnesota days did duty aboard a sub tender in HL.
Good duty, he said.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:00:26 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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