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Reminds me of a Scottish bagpiper, Bill Millin, during WW2 who played during the D-Day landing. The German snipers deliberately avoided shooting at him because they thought it was so ballsy and awesome. The guy survived the war.
I can imagine...
— Hans, look at that lunatic with the bagpipes!
— I'll be dogged, Fritz! It's true! - points machine gun at him
— Nein, nein, nein! It's a mood. Kill him last. Besides, he's not fighting.
so it is true
There was also that guy who somehow wasn't Scottish, who fought WWII with bagpipes and a longbow, and then went on to become a pioneer in the sport of surfing. Quoted to have said "If it weren't for the damn yanks we could have kept the war going another ten years."
What a fucking Scottish way to assert dominance, I love it
Didn't they rather think he was mad?
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