Originally Posted by
Alan H
Look at it this way. We're all so blazingly proud to be Scottish here. OMG, the forum is all about how terribly Scottish we all are and how proud of our Heritage we are. Yet, somehow in all this, people conveniently forget that our ancestors fought like cats and dogs all over Scotland, raided cattle, slaughtered opposing clansmen and so on for a good thousand years and more. Is your Heritage from the Borders? Funny how so many "celebrate" the fact that most of the Border families perfected the arts of murder, pillage, rape, blackmail, and betrayal, and there's 600 years of history to prove it. If you really want to know, I think it sounds like nonstop gang warfare to me. It's no different from family feudin' through six generations in the Applachians. Boy, we all love to glorify our Heritage.... as long as we don't actually have to think about ALL of it.
I must be one of the few people then that actually thinks about it & actually glories in it! 
[SIZE="2"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]T. E. ("TERRY") HOLMES[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]proud descendant of the McReynolds/MacRanalds of Ulster & Keppoch, Somerled & Robert the Bruce.[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]"Ah, here comes the Bold Highlander. No @rse in his breeks but too proud to tug his forelock..." Rob Roy (1995)[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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