Stirring bagpipes on Juno Beach to mark 75th anniversary of D-Day | Watch News Videos Online

Thank you, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting the video link and background: the The solemn sound of bagpipes filled Juno Beach on Thursday commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day where 14,000 Canadian Allied volunteer troops landed on its shores in the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War.

D-Day 75: A lone piper marks the minute the D-Day invasion began
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2R6q-lGSKg

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Bill Millin the bagpipe player was on the beach at the incipient moments of the beach landings. He gave the soldiers strength by his example and his music. It is said the Germans did not shoot him because he was considered crazy.

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