Can I wear my wife's family too?

[tripleblessed]

'latch on to a lot of romantic-- if that's the word-- misconceptions....... I have this to say: Grow Up!"

I, too, have noticed a lot of romantic misconceptions over the years. You'll find this hard to believe, but I actually have known people so naive as to believe that the ability to quote chapter and verse of the "official" version of any war means they actually know what really happened. Facts may be available, but that's frequently a different thing than what happened. My gg- grandfather,who died at James Island in the "Late Unpleasantness", was the grandson of a Revolutionary War veteran who was the 6th generation in North America. I think I might have valid insight into whether or not there is discussion and strong feeling on that most UN-civil war mentioned. Fuss is made, just not with anyone who arrived in the last 125 years. That's pointless.

I, too, had relatives on both sides at Drummossie, though direct ancestors is unlikely, and certainly not proven. I will only say about that day that I respect all who stand up for what they believe. I find it exceeding sad that both sides on that field were there because they believed they had the right/duty to decide for other human individuals how they should be allowed to feel, to believe, to dress. To that situation , I return to the quote from a hero of mine on a forum I visit.


"But stop all this stuff, okay?

'Cause it really makes you look foolish.

MoR
(whose ancestor survived at Drumossie Moor, and whose Godfather's ancestor led Pearson's Horse at the same battle)"

Next, someone will be trying to convince me that Columbus discovered America, or that a Sinclair was the first European to visit same.