[Happygal]

THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW...I am currently madly deeply and dippy about Lt. Col. Tim Collins (Who is over the Belfast man over the Irish Guards).

No one underestimates the soldiers of ANY division. But when soldierdom is 'brought back home' to people, it instills a HUGE sense of pride.

And BLACK WATCH??? Those guys are brilliant.

(BTW, US folks may think of all UK soldiers as 'British' toops...but you must remember while that IS the case, Scottish men see themselves as Scottish first, and British second. Almost like Suth'n men making the claim for the south over the Yankee north (even to this day)..I've met many Americans who see England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as being the 'British Isles'..but any American who has come to these islands and voiced that opinion, I'm sure, has been educated differently) *S*

[aculeus]

THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back atcha!

[aculeus]

THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back atcha!

[lizma]

)..I've met many Americans who see England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as being the 'British Isles'..but any American who has come to these islands and voiced that opinion, I'm sure, has been educated differently)

A few years ago, while I was in Germany, I met a bunch of students from Cardiff.

I said "Oh, you're Welsh" and they answered "No, we're British."

Surprised me.

[Guenevere]

#9...So very very true :)))
(I'm relating it to the Southern men)