Diana got very emotional over it..
https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/780754169682472960 😓
Diana: "I can't talk about them, or I'll cry."
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
Wow, that's got me all misty. 😢
shareI wasn't all sure before this, but now I really want to visit that battle field.
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
I will be there in barely two weeks!
shareI was there last week and it is really sad and depressing.
And I must say I was a little disgusted with people taking smiling selfies in front of the Clan stones. Who would go to a cemetery and snap selfies with a gravestone?
There were small flowers in front of some of the stones, but at the Fraser stone there were some huge bouquets of hothouse roses. I dearly hope it has nothing to do with this fictional series, as I think that would be pretty disrespectful to the real Frasers who actually died there.
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There were small flowers in front of some of the stones, but at the Fraser stone there were some huge bouquets of hothouse roses. I dearly hope it has nothing to do with this fictional series, as I think that would be pretty disrespectful to the real Frasers who actually died there.
Also, setting aside that this is disgusting behaviour, it makes no sense plot-wise. Jamie didn't even die at Culloden in the novels.
I had no idea about the pictures and love messages. How utterly despicable. Have they no sense of the real history which happened there? I hope the groundskeepers throw all that crap out as soon as it touches the ground.
ETA: If you are visiting Doune Castle, make sure to pick up the audio guide as some chapters about the filming of Outlander are narrated by Sam!
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Yeahh. Sometimes I go through SM and see those pics taken at Fraser Clan stone with all that stuff around it, I go like "WTF?"
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
ETA: If you are visiting Doune Castle, make sure to pick up the audio guide as some chapters about the filming of Outlander are narrated by Sam!
And I must say I was a little disgusted with people taking smiling selfies in front of the Clan stones. Who would go to a cemetery and snap selfies with a gravestone?
What you describe is very different than what I saw at Culloden.
I have visited Jane Austen's house and her grave (would not have crossed my mind to take a selfie of me smiling standing on the memorial plate) and I felt the same. It is hard to describe.
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I have visited Jane Austen's house and her grave (would not have crossed my mind to take a selfie of me smiling standing on the memorial plate) and I felt the same. It is hard to describe.
I can't believe they were created for no one to be swept up by them. In any event, I did take photographs there in black and white film and I thought they were lovely.
I felt the same way visiting museums and libraries, seeing original manuscripts of famous writers, noting the strike-outs and erasures of masterpieces of works
It does seem distasteful and disrespectful, however, Outlander has called so much attention to this period in time, that for many would never have been known about. Perhaps, those souls that lost their lives in Culloden would find a bit of mirth in the situation?! An important part of history has been forever memorialized by the Outlander fame.
shareThat's a nice way to look at it. At the end of the day, the dead don't care about it anyway.
I still find it incredibly disrespectful and also a little bit disconcerting the disconnect some people seem to have between fact and fiction.
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I wasn't all sure before this, but now I really want to visit that battle field.
Glencoe really is eerily beautiful, I got chills driving through.
I hope you get to see Jane Austen's grave. There's also the memorial of one of William Wilberforce's sons in the cathedral, who was a Bishop there. It's a very impressive building.
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Glencoe really is eerily beautiful, I got chills driving through.
I hope you get to see Jane Austen's grave. There's also the memorial of one of William Wilberforce's sons in the cathedral, who was a Bishop there. It's a very impressive building.
I guess you'd have to be pretty hard-hearted not to feel emotional at any battlefield site. I get emotional looking at the war graves in my local cemetery - of young men who died training for the RAF during world war 2. War is such a waste of human lives.
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While an armistice was signed hostilities are still going on. I know a marine who in the 80s was sent into N. Korea to do silent kills. I'm sure military personal are still "fighting" over there.
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Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. - J G Whittier
Yup
There have recently been commemorations on the Battle of the Somme (1st July 1916 to 18th November 1916) here in Europe - a particularly pointless and bloody slaughter on a massive scale; the numbers of dead amounted to more than 96,500 British and Commonwealth troops, nearly 60,000 French, and 164,000 German troops. And that wasn't the whole 1914-18 war, just one battle.
When we studied this period in History and English class (because of the 'War poets') I would look around the room at all the young lads in the class aged in their mid-teens, the ones I had crushes on, and the goofy class jokers etc, and I'd get really quite upset that it was boys just like these that went like sheep to the slaughter.
That's why I said in a previous post somewhere, that knowledge of history is important, and ignorance of it, and how we got into the situation, politically, religiously and socially that we find ourselves in today, is dangerous.
If anybody has time, this is a wee song that demonstrates the futility of so many wars, and how easily young men seem to be persuaded to volunteer for 'glory'. The last verse is particularly poignant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHt43DDars
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Awww, that's really moving. Always thought Diana used to Culloden, it being so big a part if the books. Am surprised but pleased to see this.
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