[Lord Lovat] was ordering now, as they waded up Sword Beach, in that drawly voice of his: “Give us a tune, piper.” Mr Millin thought him a mad bastard. The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under. But there was Lovat, strolling through fire quite calmly in his aristocratic way, allegedly wearing a monogrammed white pullover under his jacket and carrying an ancient Winchester rifle, so if he was mad Mr Millin thought he might as well be ridiculous too, and struck up “Hielan’ Laddie”. Lovat approved it with a thumbs-up, and asked for “The Road to the Isles”. Mr Millin inquired, half-joking, whether he should walk up and down in the traditional way of pipers. “Oh, yes. That would be lovely.”

Dead at 88.

Not bad.

Don’t just fade away; they go out with some style.

It is not dead.

Which give me hope that manhood is not yet completely dead either.

How many pistols have a magazine with at least 13 rounds?

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Father takes full impact of out-of-control car to save his child.

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This is almost enough to make me wish I had been born five years earlier.

A gift from a wonderful friend.

Last member of the Hubener resistance group passes away in Salt Lake City.

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