Quote Originally Posted by 48th Highlander View Post
Why would you wear a Seaforths badge? Pray you never run in to a Seaforth Highlander, Canadian or Scottish. Strap a USMC badge on and see what happens to you in this country. This kind of crap pisses me off. Sorry. There is no defense for it if you did not serve and you did not earn it so why do you feel you can just strap it on?

I am formally from a Highland Regiment, and there is only one day of the year I can wear the badge I earned and that is when parading with the Old Comrades on the Remembrance Day parade. It is entirely insulting that you would turn a badge that represents generations of those who lost their lives just to make a fashion statement!
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I have taken quite a while before answering this thread. You say you have the Badge and the Balmoral, (saw the photos) so I guess at some time you will wear it. If not, then you don't attach a Highland badge to a khaki bonnet, you need a ToS from the time your relative served to be really correct to display.
You mention that all the comments are opinions. However, they are not. Those against you wearing it are the honest feelings of the people concerned. Nobody is entitled to wear a Military badge of a Regiment that he did not serve in, and I am definately not buying a Vietnam, US Navy or whatever to wear.
In the words of Terry Moore in his song about the the fallen soldiers of the regiments now forming the Royal Regiment of Scotland " although the ToS and the Tartan may wither the Badge will show that you're there".
I guess you now know how to fix the Badge with its tartan patch, so question answered.