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mfcorey1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:38 AM Original message |
Just curious. Why is there a big emphasis on Irish at the ceremony? i.e. bagpiper My |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. I think bagpipes are traditional when firefighters or police |
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mfcorey1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Thanks. nt |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. There are also Irish bagpipes. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. There may well be, but bagpipes are associated with Scotland. |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 09:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. There are Irish pipes as well. And the Irish and Scots |
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mrmpa (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 10:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
15. It's about mourning.... |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. Persons of Irish Descent ... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Good point |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 08:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You are correct, sir. But NYPD has changed demographically ... |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. the NYPD (maybe FD too) has always had their own band of bagpipers who play for fallen brothers |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. And how else do you play Amazing Grace outdoors? nt |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
7. Its both Irish and Scot in tradition. Today cops and the military as well |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
11. It has become a tradition. |
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XanaDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
12. Tradition |
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Maeve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
13. It has been estimated that as many as 1/6 of those who died on 9/11 were of Irish descent |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
16. NYCity firefighters were traditionally Irish. They had somebody playing a flute |
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