I read somewhere that after Burns died they erected a statue of him in the village square.
"Rabbie, oh Rabbie," his elderly mother cried out at the ceremony. "You asked them for bread, and they've given you a stone."
I'm Scot-Welsh on my father's side, and I spent two years living in Scotland while serving in the U.S. Navy on a tugboat at the nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch in 1974 and 1975.
Even though the Scots are a war-like people (the Scots' reknown Black Watch Regiment is currently serving in Iraq), their national hero is a poet, Robert Burns.
I read somewhere that after Burns died they erected a statue of him in the village square.
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I'm Scot-Welsh on my father's side, and I spent two years living in Scotland while serving in the U.S. Navy on a tugboat at the nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch in 1974 and 1975.
Even though the Scots are a war-like people (the Scots' reknown Black Watch Regiment is currently serving in Iraq), their national hero is a poet, Robert Burns.
I found that interesting.
Paul Davis
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