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National Tartan Day

April 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Tartan Day‘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.’ ~ Extract from the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.

On April 6, America honors its Scottish roots by celebrating Tartan Day, established in 1998 to commemorate Scotland’s Declaration of Arbroath which was written in 1320 and is one of the inspirations for the Declaration of Independence.

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