Figured that title would get more attention than pointing out that Sunday is National Tartan Day a.k.a. Forget Those Drunken Catholics, Let’s Celebrate an Ethnic Group to be Proud Off Day (I kid, I kid) (mostly). See back in 1998 the Senate declared April 6th to be National Tartan Day. The House followed up two years ago and today President Bush signed a similar proclamation, which is the first I’ve heard of it.
So why April 6th? Because that’s the day Scotland declared it’s independence from England, a whole 456 years before America.
Last month I said I’d celebrate St. Patrick’s Day when everyone else started celebrating St. Andrew’s Day, but I’m striking that now and replacing it with this day. So, who’s up for going out Sunday to celebrate Tartan Day and down some scotch?
…for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom � for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.