Sent my email. Titled it: Son of an RAF Pilot who protected Dumfries

My father was an American boy from Montana who flew Hurricanes for the RAF during War II. His letters home mention flying sector protection over Dumfries. He joined the RAF because our family is from Staffin, Skye - sent to Canada in the clearances.

I am one of those loud mouth Americans who wear kilts. I own over 50 kilts. Most sewn from material woven in Scotland or Great Britain.

I wear the tartans of my ancestral clans proudly.

And, I'm a freind of the gentlemen your Mr. Kerr Mathews insulted in January that your agency has not seen fit to apologize for you.

While at age 62 I am unlikely to visit the country my ancestors were cleared from - and the country my father protected as an RAF pilot, it was a possibility, a long term goal.

Knowing I would be so insulted by the local tourist agency has made planning a trip to the homeland much less of a goal for me.

I am taken even more by the lack of response, than the insults.

Ron Macdonald
Page, Arizona USA
by way of Skye Glen, Nova Scotia and Staffin, Skye.