Quote Originally Posted by highlander_Daz
Ive never known Irish people to be offended by Black Watch Tartan and Ive attended many "Irish" weddings and seen many people wearing black watch, maybe its a bit of coloniolism creeping in there.
The 42nd Highland Regiment are heros to the people of scotland regardless of what may have happened in the past. There conduct in Iraq recently only served to underline this upon entring the "triangle of death" a senior black watch officer emerged from his tank, removed his body armour and helmet. donned a Glengarry and piped the regiment into the war zone. my great great uncle who was in the Black watch was killed in the first world war. and was buried in France. to anyone who is offended by the Tartan of such brave fighting men should, in my opinion go and lie down in a dark room and reflect that all the freedoms we enjoy today are only available to us because of the sacrifice of these and others like them.
Yes, and I like it, tool

The point about colonialism is very important to most of the discussions on this board. A lot of the conflicts here are based on some mythology about over there. Without going into it, there has been a lot of censorship that is only being lifted now. Best to make sure of the facts first. Last note on this drifting topic focus: there were Highland regiments stationed in Ireland during the '70s at least. They've always been buffers and I'll leave that there. Understand that they would not have been kilted in any case.

Yes, Black Watch is generic, it would be nice to have a military link and the respect, but that's not a condition of sale. Everybody has a military link somewhere.