42nd Highlanders Regimental Pipes & Drums

The Hackle Online

The Online Edition of the 42nd Highlanders Regimental Pipes & Drums Newsletter
The Hackle© is a newsletter published by the 42nd Highlanders Regimental Pipes & Drums. Within these pages we hope to present to you, in small vignettes, the story of our band so that you may get to know who we are and what we do. We are not the typical competition pipe band you see at the Highland Games. We are a service band. We are made up of military veterans, police, firemen, and dedicated community servants that feel a need to give back to their country the honor she so richly deserves. Our band has performed, both in formation and individually, hundreds of funerals and memorial services for American and Allied military veterans. These services demonstrate to all in attendance our desire to impart to the remaining family members "the thanks of a grateful nation."

Excerpts of The Hackle Online© may be reprinted provided copyright notice and source are attributed. Further articles and excerpts from The Hackle© will be added in the future, so please check back from time to time.

Articles
A Short History of the Bagpipes, by George Hall
Just a Common Soldier, by A. Lawrence Vaincourt
An Olde Scottish Poem, submitted by George Hall
So You Want to be a Piper, by Douglas MacLeod Terrel
I Buried a Friend Today, by Doug Scheid
What is a Vet, by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
A Drummer's Tribute to Veterans, by Kevin Campbell
Thirteen Perfect Folds, by Richard Strayer

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