Quote Originally Posted by ForresterModern View Post
Todd

I value history as much as the next man, but there is a time and a place for everything, and this thread was not the time or place to trample on the graves of the Glencoe MacDonalds with a "they had it coming" quote sloughed off on some other authors, as if you had no responsibility for putting it in this thread.

The thread was started with a simple memorial to the fallen, I believe deftly avoiding the issues of conflict and background, not to further fan the flames of longstanding clan feuds or unrelated skullduggery. And if you will carefully re-read my posts to date you will find that there has NOT been any use of this thread to foster any petty hatreds, specifically for the Campbells or anyone else. You may have seen it first hand somewhere else, but NOT in the original post, and not in any of my subsequent posts in the thread. So there was NO reason for you to bring it up here as an issue.

It seems, Todd, that the only one on a soapbox in this thread is you.

MODERATORS, PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD. THANK YOU ALL.

jeff
Jeff, I realise you are trying to get the mods to close the thread and I don't blame you.
I read through each post and you have attempted to commemorate a massacre from a very distant, unbiased perspective to honor those to died, and yet not involve the thread with argumentative views on the background of the event. I do not pick up a sense that you are attempting to shovel blame onto anyone's part and you certainly said what you said very fairly.