Reminds me of a
Scottish bagpiper, Bill Millin, during WW2 who played during the D-Day landing. The German snipers deliberately avoided shooting at him because they thought it was so ballsy and awesome. The guy survived the war.

Scottish Piper War Heroes - Historic UK
A tale of two very brave Scottish pipers, Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC and Piper Bill Millin...
Historic UKDidn’t they rather think he was mad?