Battle of Bannockburn

[bjproc]

Today, June 24, 1314

just incase anybody forgot

[ScottEPooh]

Wore my SWK Wallace (the only one that was clean) to work in honour!!!

[macwilkin]

I never forget the anniversary of Bannockburn -- it's on my birthday! :mrgreen:

Slainte,

Todd

[CelticRanger66]

Thanks !!! I will tell everyone I see today!! Happy Bday Cajunscot!!

[Jock Scot]

Sometimes,just sometimes,I wish we would forget Bannockburn and get on with the battles of today.History is important,I know,but ..............

[Spc. Scott]

In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.


Not an altogether historically accurate movie by any means, but a good one none-the-less.

And Happy birthday Cajunscot

[Spc. Scott]

Sometimes,just sometimes,I wish we would forget Bannockburn and get on with the battles of today.History is important,I know,but ..............

At the risk of getting too far out of bounds....it's can be deceptively easy to ignore what is happening right in front of oneself.

[macwilkin]

Sometimes,just sometimes,I wish we would forget Bannockburn and get on with the battles of today.History is important,I know,but ..............

You're making this history teacher cry, Jock.

T.

[Jock Scot]

You're making this history teacher cry, Jock.

T.

I am sorry to upset you Todd and history is very important and The Battle of Bannockburn was a milestone victory for the Scots, to what end though?Four centuries of murder, mayhem,double dealing ,religeous intolerance, general skulduggery and self(not national)interest by the Scots followed.Even when a Hannoverian led British army finaly sorted all that out in 1746 with, to say the least, very dubious methods, did the Scots stop the cruelty?No way! To add insult to greivous injury, some,I repeat, some Scots had a hand in making their countrymens plight more grim by being involved in the clearances.Then the Scots have the gall to blame the English,or anybody else, for their mainly self inflicted woes and misdeeds .We are at least, now, some 700 years after the famous Scots victory, all trying to get this wonderful country to have some respect.Sorry to harp on,but lets leave the rose tinted glasses off and by recognising our failings we will,perhaps, be more united than we have ever been.

[macwilkin]

I am sorry to upset you Todd and history is very important and The Battle of Bannockburn was a milestone victory for the Scots, to what end though?Four centuries of murder, mayhem,double dealing ,religeous intolerance and general skulduggery by the Scots followed.Even when a Hannoverian led British army finaly sorted all that out in 1746 with, to say the least, very dubious methods, did the Scots stop the cruelty?No way! To add insult to greivous injury, some,I repeat, some Scots had a hand in making their countrymens plight more grim by being involved in the clearances.Then the Scots have the gall to blame the English,or anybody else, for their mainly self inflicted woes and misdeeds .We are at least, now, some 700 years after the famous Scots victory, all trying to get this wonderful country to have some respect.Sorry to harp on,but lets leave the rose tinted glasses off and by recognising our failings we will,perhaps, be more united than we have ever been.

Jock,

You've just proved my point by using history as your example.

We shouldn't forget the past, we should learn from it.

T.