Security Shuts Down Soldier Bagpipers at Union Station

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The Allied Forces Foundation Pipes & Drums were proud to represent the AFF at the Marine Corps Marathon weekend in Washington DC, October, 2012. Among other venues, they played at the DC Armory (above) and the Pentagon. AFF is supporting more runners each year at this significant, high-profile event. (AFF)

Security officials shut down members of the Allied Forces Foundation from playing the bagpipes at Union Station in Washington DC.
The soldiers didn’t have a permit.
CNS News reported:

An organization that serves British and American soldiers and its families was told by Union Station security in Washington, D.C., Saturday that it could not play its bagpipes, because it did not have a permit.

The Allied Forces Foundation (AFF), which helps wounded soldiers and their families in the United Kingdom as well as the United States, had a luncheon at Pizzeria Uno’s on Saturday for their families and supporters in the buildup to the Marine Corps Marathon, held the following day.

As part of the event, a couple members of the AFF’s Pipe and Drum Corps played a couple of tunes on bagpipes to entertain their group, as well as the general public. The pipers played on the balcony which faces the main promenade, but several members of Union Station’s security team stopped them, because they did not have a permit to play.

Maj. Steven Cain, MBE, one of the founders of the AFF who served for 20 years in the British Special Forces, explained that the entire incident was “ridiculous.”

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