Alan,
Great post, thank you.
I hope all goes as well as can be expected for you and your family.
Will send my thoughts and good mojo out to you and yours.

As for the rest, I couldn't agree more.
I wear a kilt because I like the comfort and looks of it as a piece of clothing.
I don't go to many fancy affairs, so I don't worry too much about "proper" attire.
As for my everyday kicking around, I wear what I like and what I think looks good. (Emphasis on I)
I couldn't care less what anyone else thinks of it or how it was worn "properly" 100 years ago!
Even wearing only modern (and usually more wild than the norm at that) kilts, I find it interesting to learn of the history of it, but I personally don't think that is even necessary for the casual kilt wearer.

This isn't meant to be disrespectful of the history or where the kilt came from, but if you just like wearing it, who cares about all that and why would anyone think it necessary?
For anyone that takes issue with that statement I ask you this, did you spend hours tracing back and learning the history of jeans the first time you put a pair on? Have you done it now? I would guess probably not. Why? It is just clothes. In the grand scheme of things, that is what it amounts to, and that is what a kilt is. Just clothes, something to put on to cover the naughty bits when out in public because that is what society says we are expected to do.