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Old 08-20-2010, 05:06 PM
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Bill Millen, the most famous Scottish bagpiper on D-Day in Normandy, died on Wednesday, August 18 at age 88.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/wo...o_interstitial

He was portrayed in the 1962 movie, "The Longest Day".

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I wonder if he played as he passed in review for St. Peter?

The place must be full of "good men" from the Greatest Generation by now.

I'm sure that there was a pint of Guinness waiting.
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Thanks for sharing this.

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