I am sorry for going off topic, but, I got to ask some folk older and wiser then I am...

How can they do that? The English I mean. The whole Blackwatch thing. How can the English just cast them off like that? These men were blown to hamburger in so many wars. They had suicide missions. They crawled the trenches and bore the brunt of war on their shoulders... And how can they be treated as nothing more then common expendable infantry? How in the hell could they just go home and be mostly forgotten like that? I, well, I just don't understand. I am not from England. I don't know the politics as well I would like. And I don't know half as much as I should. I know there is a lot of tension between the Scots and the English, but hell, HOW could anybody just cast somebody off like that? How could somebody just belittle somebody like that? Really pisses me off. I guess I don't understand. I am not sure I want to. How could somebody go home to their own country and receive what is a lukewarm welcome at best... But come to America and be recognized as a hero? What gives... I am ignorant on these issues.