Gilmore in your ramblings you sound as an intelligent gent but to disgrace a Clan idealogy is absurd! Everything is built on a Clan system, being a 23 yr veteran and a 2 time combat vet, everything revolves around clans. Be them Scottish or the Marines, Army or whomever and I take traditions very serious, I don't wear my combat medals because they are pretty colors. I wear them because I have earned them and fought with my clansmen to get them. I am not doing this to be able to pat myself on the back but to carry on a name that I believe is my past. By the way the comment "the past is the past" irks me because there are a lot of traditions brought forth from the military that holds just as much water today as it did back then.

SORRY, off my soap opera now!