some ejjits disrespecting culloden

**skauwt** · 15th July 09, 08:22 AM

i read this today... i couldnt believe the nerve of some folk using culldon as a picnic field its one thing having a picnic on a war grave but they had dogs also and well you know what dogs are good at... the very thought of a dugkeech on a war grave is so dam disrespectful

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...ds/8150288.stm

**Phil** · 15th July 09, 08:26 AM

The world is full of people who don't have respect for such things. I mean they don't even have any respect for themselves so how can they do so for anything else?

**Dall_Piobaire** · 15th July 09, 08:27 AM

I have heard that they have built over many of the historic sites. It's a shame!!!

Here, the parks won't even let you do reenactments on historic battlefields anymore! Yet they let people do exactly what you are talking about. It's the memory that matters most, what was at stake what was sacrificed, and by whom! Keep that alive and you honor the thing!

**Jock Scot** · 15th July 09, 08:35 AM

That is disgraceful behaviour. Sadly, I am not the least bit surprised and this is what happens when standards, personal and educational, are lowered.

**Dall_Piobaire** · 15th July 09, 08:40 AM

Cullodon especially!!! That would be the last place I would want to picnic. Do people not realize what truely happened there?

**beloitpiper** · 15th July 09, 08:51 AM

This happens too often. Beloit College has many Indian mounds around the campus and people treat those graves as if they were just some regular hill.

**Jock Scot** · 15th July 09, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Dall_Piobaire

Culloden especially!!! That would be the last place I would want to picnic. Do people not realize what truely happened there?

As far as I am concerned Culloden is no different to any other battlefield and the graves of the fallen, anywhere in the world.

**BEEDEE** · 15th July 09, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

That is disgraceful behaviour. Sadly, I am not the least bit surprised and this is what happens when standards, personal and educational, are lowered.

Jock - I think that you have made a really valid reason for the bad behavior.

Brian

**Dall_Piobaire** · 15th July 09, 08:56 AM

I don't disagree Jock, but the slaughter, what Cumberland did to innocent people women and children....babies, burnt alive! Wounded men drug out and shot!!!

No that's no ordinary place and no ordinary sacrifice!

**Colonel MacNeal** · 15th July 09, 08:56 AM

Skauwt,
You should have asked the picnic'ers where there grandfather's grave was, and tell them you will plan a kegger there.
If ignorance is bliss, then the picnic'ers were in Nirvana.
ColMac