Bill Millin playing the bagpipes in an photograph from World War II taken shortly after D-Day.
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08/20/2010 1:17:52 PM PDT by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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08/20/2010 1:20:57 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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4 posted on
08/20/2010 1:24:14 PM PDT by
jla
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RIP.
My grandfather was a combat engineer that went ashore at Omaha during the 1st assault wave. When I was a boy he told me how you could hear the Scots playing the pipes over the din of battle and also how the Brits would break for tea even though shooting was still going on.
5 posted on
08/20/2010 1:25:28 PM PDT by
mrmeyer
("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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"...The flowers of the forest are a' wede away...." RIP
6 posted on
08/20/2010 1:25:33 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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lived to see his bravado immortalized That wasn't bravado; it was bravery.
7 posted on
08/20/2010 1:26:01 PM PDT by
Romulus
(The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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8 posted on
08/20/2010 1:26:06 PM PDT by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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Sleep in peace, now the battle's o'er.
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God bless the British of yesteryear, they knew how to throw a war!
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08/20/2010 1:39:51 PM PDT by
cbvanb
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08/20/2010 1:52:00 PM PDT by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: You want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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Were the Germans more afraid of the guns or the pipes?
20 posted on
08/20/2010 1:57:41 PM PDT by
tarawa
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RIP
21 posted on
08/20/2010 1:58:44 PM PDT by
WOBBLY BOB
(drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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“Immortalized in the 1962 film, ‘The Longest Day’”
“Yea, it takes and Irishman to play the pipes…” — Pvt Flanagan.
Love that film and that line, especially when considering the actor who uttered it.
I am glad to know this about Bill Millin, and that his part was not just added to the movie in order to provide comic relief.
The NappyOne
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08/20/2010 2:09:20 PM PDT by
NappyOne
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08/20/2010 3:07:56 PM PDT by
sionnsar
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May Mr. Millin rest in peace.
26 posted on
08/20/2010 3:11:58 PM PDT by
FourPeas
(God Save America)
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RIP brave warrior!
I'll bet he could, in his prime, drive many a bold lad from his perch with those pipes! As a fiddler, glad I don't have to contend with a piper. A banjo player with a resonator is bad enough!
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29 posted on
08/20/2010 6:28:31 PM PDT by
Rannug
("When you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." JFK)
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What better way to invade than by playing an ancient terror weapon!
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08/20/2010 7:03:14 PM PDT by
Professional Engineer
(Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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