To End All Wars

[Riverkilt]

Hey Todd,

I saw the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders with the Black Watch on 10/25/89 in the Sundome in Sun City, AZ. Still have the program which mentions the A&SH last American tour was in 1985 with the Royal Marines.

My 1989 program skips all of WWII in the A&SH history. They do mention FJ Richetts/Kenneth J. Alford in the article however.

What I recall most about the event was that as I was standing in the ticket line an elderly gentleman gave me one of his tickets. He said his wife couldn't make it. I accepted and while we were sitting together waiting for the performance to begin I asked him if his wife was ill. He said no, he was a beginning piper and she told him she wasn't going to listen to any more bagpipe music than she had to.

When the bands played their salute to American Forces it was spine tingling as the men in the audience stood for their service's song. And I was proud to stand at the Marine Corps Hymn with "The Old Breed" in the audience with my benefactor standing beside me. Our service histories never came up until the Hymn played. Still gives me goosebumps.

Ron