It was a great day out, the sun was shining most of the day with only a couple of spots of rain, a bit of a trek from the East coast, but worth it. Our local band's novice drum corp (which my eldest plays snare for) picked up 1st place for their grade, the adult band got 1st for drumming & 1st for ensemble in their grade and our junior drum major picked up 2nd place.
Brave men, especially as they were targeted in WWI by the enemy to reduce British moral. This lead to the War Office banning pipers in the front line in WWII, but do a google search for "Mad William Millin". On D-Day Lord Lovet asked Private Millin to pipe the soldiers ashore at Sword Beach saying of the law "Ah, but that's the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn't apply." Millin said that he later spoke to captured German snipers who told him they didn't shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad.
![Military Pipes & Drums march down Edinburgh's Royal Mile [4K/UHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/K4UXcKWh_Wc/mqdefault.jpg)
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This is how it's meant to be. Thousands of bagpipes on a hill. Nothing else like it.
It was a great day out, the sun was shining most of the day with only a couple of spots of rain, a bit of a trek from the East coast, but worth it. Our local band's novice drum corp (which my eldest plays snare for) picked up 1st place for their grade, the adult band got 1st for drumming & 1st for ensemble in their grade and our junior drum major picked up 2nd place.
Whenever I hear bagpipes it brings me to thinking about those brave pipers in the first world war
Brave men, especially as they were targeted in WWI by the enemy to reduce British moral. This lead to the War Office banning pipers in the front line in WWII, but do a google search for "Mad William Millin". On D-Day Lord Lovet asked Private Millin to pipe the soldiers ashore at Sword Beach saying of the law "Ah, but that's the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn't apply."
Millin said that he later spoke to captured German snipers who told him they didn't shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad.
@@highflyingscotland I have heard of that man. I cannot believe the bravery he had
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He was a Canadian Soldier
@@matthewr6572 only just 😂, his parents were both Scottish and moved back to Scotland with him when he was 3.
@@highflyingscotland yes you are right. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. Then moved to Scotland
I love the pipes. I wish I could play mine, but I don't have the wind and all my fingers😊
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