Mark from the States Reacts To the Gun Salutes Fired in Honor Of the King's Birthday...IT'S THE HAC!

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Your Thanksgiving feast looks delicious Mark. The gun salute looks interesting. I've sent you a link to a video about gun salutes in Hyde Park .

[@JJ-of1ir]

Thanks for showing us your Thanksgiving 'Feast'. It looks good. We will have to wait another three weeks plus to have our special meal. I've never seen the Gun Salute up so close before so it was quite something to see how the men work as a team. Hope the King has a very good year. He's been through a lot. Thanks Mark. Hope your Thanksgiving was an enjoyable day.

[@Richard500]

Yes, the cap that is flipped off is protecting the "percussion cap" or "Fuse" in the base of the shell. I can't remember what it is called now.

[@simonfox9452]

Wow looks great if I ever met you I’d do your family insane Yordhire puddings and Norfolk dumplings as my folks come from both! Much love and thanks always for your wonderful support of our special relationship ❤

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Sounds great!

[@bladeschick1]

Hi Mark thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving meal it looked fabulous. Happy Thanksgiving by the way ❤

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Happy holidays!

[@jeffthomas2364]

Hi Mark, it all depends as to what the occasion is as to how many rounds are fired. In this occasion it is 21 for the basic Royal salute, then a further 20 because The Tower of London is A Royal Palace, then 21 for The city of London. A full 62 Gun salute is usually to mark a royal birth, death or succession to The throne.

[@frankdoyle9066]

Looks a great Thanksgiving meal Mark.

[@DavidJohnson-rj8zu]

The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41 Gun Royal Salute in Green Park, as well as the 62 Gun Royal Salute by the HAC 🧐(I would like to think also for me as we both are the same age but I am several months older) 🤭

[@joan783]

Hi Mark, glad you had a great Thanksgiving. I shared mine with a bunch of Americans at the Alnwick Castle, students and staff from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Very well done except for the cream that the Americans thought was ice cream, caught them by surprise. I didn’t care for the sweet potato with marshmallows on top, too sweet.

[@MarkfromtheStates]

LOL ya I'm not a fan of sweet potato either

[@user-TonyUK]

As we do not celebrate Thanks Giving, we therefore have no set menu for that meal.

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Yes lol

[@user-TonyUK]

@@MarkfromtheStates However I have heard Harvest Festival being called the UKs Thanksgiving Day ....

[@MrBulky992]

​​@@user-TonyUKHarvest festival in the UK is not a holiday. It is merely a special religios service held by individual schools and churches on different days. There is no set day, no public holiday and family and friends do not travel to see each other and/or sit down to a special meal. The last time I attended a harvest festival was in 1972 at school! In the UK, families get together traditionally around and between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. The traditional set meal is, for most, the Christmas Dinner in the middle of the day on 25 December. The only other traditional annual set meal I can think of in the UK is in Scotland on Burns' Night (25 January) but that would tend to be something celebrated outside the home with friends and acquaintances rather than relatives, I would guess.

[@101steel4]

​@@user-TonyUKThanksgiving is a harvest festival. Well that's what it started out as anyway.

[@claregale9011]

Hi Mark , food looks delicous , well done Cooper that macaroni looks good too 😊. Maybe check out some of our Christmas adverts now we are going into December 😊.

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Thank you! Will do!

[@catherinewilkins2760]

Did you have pudding/desert/sweet, with the meal? It looked very nice.

[@101steel4]

Pie I'd guess?

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Ya forgot to show those...Yes there was pecan and pumpkin pies and choc Kahlua cake

[@ellesee7079]

Looks like Cooper did a great job! And the rest of it didn't look bad either! 😋 Hope you all had a great time 🤗

[@MarkfromtheStates]

So good! Thanks ElleSee. It was a great time.

[@LordRogerPovey]

The number is usually 21 and multiples of 21 at certain times.

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Thank you

[@101steel4]

Looks very different to our Christmas turkey dinner. We don't have macaroni & cheese on a roast dinner, and usually have roast potatoes instead of mash. Did look delicious though.

[@MarkfromtheStates]

It was

[@danielferguson3784]

Mark. I think the failing gun probably overheated. The usual Royal Salute is 21 guns. It may be more for the Birthday, but not to the number of the Monarch's age. I counted 45 shots, but may be a little out. Gun number 1 jammed at about shot 40, I think. I reckon it just needs to cool down a bit. These guns are of WW2 vintage, so not surprising they malfunction now & then. The place is the street immediately outside the Tower of London, between it & the River. At the same time similar salutes will have been fired in Edinburgh, Cardiff, & Belfast, & possibly also in St James or Hyde Park.

[@proudyorkshireman7708]

The guns are not of ww2 vintage they are from the Cold War and are still in active service some of the guns used by the HAC were used in the Falklands war

[@MarkfromtheStates]

Very cool thank you

[@cathyb46]

The Kings Troop Royal Artillary is the better one they are the horse drawn canons and do it in Green Park for special occassions

[@MarkfromtheStates]

very good thanks

[@101steel4]

* Honour 😉😁

[@MarkfromtheStates]

oops American spelling

[@101steel4]

When was thanksgiving, Friday? As you can tell we don't celebrate it here, although coincidentally I was in Harwich 😁 Edit: Thanksgiving is the pilgrims thing isn't it? 🤣

[@MarkfromtheStates]

It was on Thursday...

[@101steel4]

​@@MarkfromtheStatesOh onl missed it by a day😂 Yes I was in Harwich on Friday but didn't notice anything special. No idea if there's anything special laid on tbh. I could have made a little video whilst I was there. The place where it all began. Harwich is where the Mayflower was built, and its captain lived. I'm sure you knew Mark, I know many Americans don't, but they're not on your learning journey. Out of interest what do they teach the kids in school about it? Or is it just a celebration and to hell with the history?

[@ottospunkmeyer9887]

Nice video.....thevfood looks good too.....by the way, that beard of yours looks a bit wonky...needs a trim petchance?.......keep up the good work.....

[@MarkfromtheStates]

LOL yes it is wonky. Wife likes it for whatever reason but I need to get some beard oil or something

[@ratarsed666]

interesting but not as good as the royal horse artillery that do their salutes from hyde park normally you get the full effect of the horse teams and the 19 century uniforms and ww1 guns

[@ratarsed666]

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[@MarkfromtheStates]

I'll have a look thank you