This is from the article mentioned in the "A different style of flashes?" thread.
Today, the memory of the Gael as a warrior has been so far lost that, when a person sees someone wearing Highland dress, the first question asked is whether the wearer plays the bagpipes; and people think a dirk is the little knife one wears in one's sock.

Yet there are still those, however few, who remember the traditional cultural values of valor, honor, independence, self-sufficiency, and love of family, clan, and country; and who hold these things dear. I recall these values anew whenever I hear the ceol mor, the "great music" of the Highland bagpipe... and I swear upon the holy iron of my dirk that I will not forget.
Romanticized? Possibly. Powerful? Yes.

That quote is exactly how I feel about my Scottish heritage. It's just that the professional writer is able to put it into words better than I am.