some ejjits disrespecting culloden

[Dall_Piobaire]

Cullodon especially!!! That would be the last place I would want to picnic. Do people not realize what truely happened there?

[Jock Scot]

Culloden especially!!! That would be the last place I would want to picnic. Do people not realize what truely happened there?

As far as I am concerned Culloden is no different to any other battlefield and the graves of the fallen, anywhere in the world.

[Dall_Piobaire]

I don't disagree Jock, but the slaughter, what Cumberland did to innocent people women and children....babies, burnt alive! Wounded men drug out and shot!!!

No that's no ordinary place and no ordinary sacrifice!

[Paul Henry]

I don't disagree Jock, but the slaughter, what Cumberland did to innocent people women and children....babies, burnt alive! Wounded men drug out and shot!!!

No that's no ordinary place and no ordinary sacrifice!

Any battlefield, anywhere in the world, with whatever countries fighting, have all their own stories, and all of them will have been horrific.

Today we hear more about war , almost first hand , often with the news media,sometimes with the people on the fields themselves.

In time, like all wars , stories and legends , fact and fiction will merge into an almost seemless story.
We only have some accounts of exactly what happened in the battles of history,so we do have to be careful of one viewpoint.

All places of war are important, and we should take care to remember the tradgedies that happened there , happened to both sides.

just my thoughts...

[macwilkin]

Any battlefield, anywhere in the world, with whatever countries fighting, have all their own stories, and all of them will have been horrific.

Today we hear more about war , almost first hand , often with the news media,sometimes with the people on the fields themselves.

In time, like all wars , stories and legends , fact and fiction will merge into an almost seemless story.
We only have some accounts of exactly what happened in the battles of history,so we do have to be careful of one viewpoint.

All places of war are important, and we should take care to remember the tradgedies that happened there , happened to both sides.

just my thoughts...

Well said, Paul.

Todd

[Jock Scot]

I don't disagree Jock, but the slaughter, what Cumberland did to innocent people women and children....babies, burnt alive! Wounded men drug out and shot!!!

No that's no ordinary place and no ordinary sacrifice!

Dall, my dear chap, battles, any battle, are terrible things to behold and the real truth is, that no battle on earth, including the one going on in Afganistan today as I write, will humanity, women, children, the wounded, ever be 100% respected, however hard soldiers may try and however much people try tell you otherwise.That is a fact.

[Ozark Ridge Rider]

As far as I am concerned Culloden is no different to any other battlefield and the graves of the fallen, anywhere in the world.

Well said, sir. Someone who has given all for something they believe in deserves eternal respect.

[MacNeill]

Happy to say I'm the one who raised the issue with the National Trust for Scotland as I was absolutely furious when I saw those individuals picnicking on the grave.

The good news is the Trust will now be putting up signs having designated the area a scheduled war grave.

Job done

[Ozark Ridge Rider]

Happy to say I'm the one who raised the issue with the National Trust for Scotland as I was absolutely furious when I saw those individuals picnicking on the grave.

The good news is the Trust will now be putting up signs having designated the area a scheduled war grave.

Job done

Thanks from probably a whole bunch of us. Many of us very likely lost ancestors/family there - likely on both sides.

[O'Callaghan]

The first thing that occurred to me when dogs were mentionned is that they like to dig up bones. I'd imagine that many battlefields may still have human bones not far beneath the surface.