June 6th

[OC Richard]

EDIT: here is Captain Samson playing his tune The Sixth Of June 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPz1b9Fxbis

He is such a great piper. He did a nice long interview on Piper's Persuasion which I found very informative and entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yuqL0z8Ek

I felt in an odd way as if I was following his entire career. I have an old album of the Queen Victoria School pipe band and he's the Pipe Major, already taller than the other boys.

He was a young Pipe Corporal in the Gordons when I saw them on their 1987 North American tour.

Here he is as Pipe Major playing a lovely solo during the regiment's last years before amalgamation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1o2LjhPBw&t=64s

In any case my family has been commemorating the anniversary of D Day by watching Band Of Brothers. My wife and my son have never seen it. We all need to see it.

My father-in-law, sadly no longer with us, was an Infantry Officer in WWII. He said Band Of Brothers was the most realistic WWII film he had seen.