{"id":44684,"date":"2014-06-06T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44684"},"modified":"2014-06-06T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T13:17:07","slug":"44684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44684","title":{"rendered":"Coolness Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Scots bagpiper who played as his mates came ashore on Sword Beach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Millin\" target=\"_blank\">on D-Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And another account of him playing as his crew\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/2014\/06\/04\/an-age-or-more-ago\/#more-37153\" target=\"_blank\">attacks Pegasus Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 671px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/nfs.stvfiles.com\/imagebase\/188\/master\/188966-bill-millin-playing-the-pipes-for-his-fellow-troops-in-1944.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"374\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Lovat&#8217;s bagpiper, Bill Millin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marching along playing bagpipes in the middle of a battlefield.\u00a0 I can believe the Germans thought he was insane.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His name was Bill Millin. He was actually from Regina, Saskatchewan &#8211; but his family moved to Scotland when he was 3. \u00a0He became a bagpiper in the 51st &#8220;Highland&#8221; Division, and then became a Commando in Lord Lovat&#8217;s brigade.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pipefest.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/millin1_47800c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millin, more recently.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And so 70 years ago this morning, Millin went into action armed only with bagpipes and the traditional, ceremonial <em>Sgian-Dubh\u00a0<\/em>knife stock in his right sock.<\/p>\n<p>As to insanity? \u00a0The Scots have long known that the sound of a bagpipe stokes the savage beast.<\/p>\n<p>Millin died in 2010. \u00a0His pipes are at the &#8220;Pegasus Bridge&#8221; museum, in Normandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Scots bagpiper who played as his mates came ashore on Sword Beach\u00a0on D-Day. And another account of him playing as his crew\u00a0attacks Pegasus Bridge. Marching along playing bagpipes in the middle of a battlefield.\u00a0 I can believe the Germans thought he was insane. Joe Doakes His name was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44686,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44684\/revisions\/44686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}