In a message dated 09/09/00 7:26:08 PM Central Daylight Time, jane@providence2000.freeserve.co.uk writes: << So in Inverness 13 years after Culloden, the hatchet seems to have been buried as Hanoverian and Jacobite sons were fighting side by side - yet it is frequently disinterred today! Jane >> Jane many a lad, myself included, have served in a Highland Regiment, which by law is a member of the british army, but by personal definitions we were NOT british soldiers, we were Highlanders, even though orders were by my time in English and a lot of lowlanders had entered the regiment, (not so in the time you are giving when orders were issued in the gaelic in most Highland regiments) so while we may of fought side by side there is little difference in our humble opinion between an English regiment beside us or an American or any other, although I did notice an affinity with the Canadians and Aussies, and Kewee's. (ANZAK) By the way one of the most impressive things I have ever seen as a mark of respect and remembrance was in a small town called Leeton in NSW when at the 11,11,11, everything in the town came to a stop even cars pulled over etc and shop keepers stoped serving and even in pubs glasses were put down and everyone stood silent for that minute. Same as in the club, sort of like the (American/Canadian legion when every day they stop for a minutes silence. Dave