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Sergeant MacKenzie
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November 1997, when the Wallace Clan returned from filming Braveheart, we decided to concentrate on our traditional music. On armistice night at band practise, one of the band drummers Joe Kilna, read out a poem to us that he had written about his grandfather who was killed during the First World War. I picked up my bagpipes played a melody to accompany the words… the world-famous tune Sergeant Mackenzie was born.
July 2000, I received a phone call from Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace, they were sitting in a vehicle lay-by on the Ventura highway California, they were both very solemn and wanted to use the tune Sergeant Mackenzie as the central soundtrack to a war movie they were producing called “Once We Were Soldiers” written by Lt. General Harold G Moore and J. L. Galloway, focussing on the role of the 7th Cavalry in the battle of La Drang valley Vietnam, the first major battle in the Vietnam war. This narrative is a dramatised account of real characters and actual events that inspired the famous Lament.
Sergeant Mackenzie
The Great War saw many ordinary men and women do extraordinary things. This story features the valour and heroism performed by a group of just such men and women. Sergeant Charles Stuart Mackenzie, Seaforth Highlanders. Floyd Gibbons and American War Correspondent. Marthe Cnockaert a Belgian nurse who had a daring dual life. Martin Kohler, a young German soldier who offers kindness to an enemy in the midst of Carnage and madness.
The actions of these people and many more will move you, inspire you and help you remember all they and millions more sacrificed for our freedom. This is a book about people caught up in a conflict they didn't understand, but who held on to their humanity in the darkest of times...
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Video: Sergeant Mackenzie. Words by Joe Kilna.
Bagpipe score written and produced by Seoras Wallace.
This video contains the music and citation summaries of all the heroic characters
featured in the narrative by Seoras Wallace:
Sergeant Mackenzie
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