Originally Posted by
Farmer Jones
You did momentarily have me questioning something I have seen done for many years, so I phoned the Legion headquarters and asked. You have to remember, this is Canada, not Australia. Your ways may not be our ways. The kilt may have started as a Scottish national dress, and been exported by the diaspora, but it is not longer just a Scottish national dress, as it has been adopted as a method of showing honour in many other places.
I have really tried to stay out of the conversation, but this is too much!
---------"the kilt is not longer just a Scottish national dress". Really? Says who? A Canadian? I think that there maybe a few Scots, more than a few, that would have something to say about that! I am appalled at the arrogance and insensitivity of that remark.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 8th August 13 at 12:16 AM.
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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