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Show Och, Mon! Gl.'s Form Yankee Bagpipe Band LONDON The United States army has formed a bagpipe band with Yankee kills. "Och. mon, but it canna be true." was the reaction of Scots. London newspapers printed the news in angry headlines. Said the Sunday Chronicle: "The Pipers Are Coming and How and How. Yanks' Kilty Band Steals A Tartan." "GI's Bag The Pipes and A Royal Tartan," growled the Sunday Sun-day Graphic. "The P i p e r s' Lament," mourned Reynolds News. The Scots said it wasn't just that the Americans have formed a pipe band, although they shudder shud-der at the name, "The Kilty Band." In fact, the Scottish borderers bor-derers loaned one of their pipers as an instructor to the U.S. army's second division band at Fort Lewis, Wash. The division is in Korea where, London papers pa-pers say, the kilt band is being formed. What pains the Scots is the Yanks' choice of the royal Stuart tartan as the cloth pattern for their kilts. This particular tartan is reserved to the pipers of five royal Scottish regiments only some 200 men in the British Army. The British royal family has worn the tartan since the time of the Stuart Kings. And only the reigning monarch as a special honor can confer the right to wear, the Stuart tartan on others. |