National Tartan Day in the US

[PinellasPaul]

Everyone should be interested in their heritage.

They should be familiar with its history and customs and they should learn from its darkest hours and greatest defeats.
Everyone should try to be proud of their heritage, if their pride is based on knowledge and understanding. Everyone should know their heritage well enough that when they speak of it, they speak out of knowledge that they have learned and earned; not something they think they heard from someone somewhere.

Every heritage has given something good to this world; and every heritage still can. Let each of us bring the good that our heritage has given us to the table and use it in our special and unique way to bless the brotherhood of man. Let each use our unique history and heritage, our own culture and custom to build a new future and a new history that is greater than ever before.

And I know that every man and woman that bears a drop, or pint, or quart or a gallon of blood that came from one who still or once wore a kilt, or a plaid, or a sgian dubh, or a bonnet, that scraped out a living on a wee bit of dirt 'tween rocks, or fought and died for freedom a thousand years ago or a dozen; these I know are the ones who will stand and lead by word or deed or encouragement onto a brighter day with tartan proudly borne. - Paul