I'm being serious with this question and not just engaging in petty arguing.
I'm guessing by your comments in this thread you are sympathiser of the British Army, an army that was not only responsible for invading my country just shy of 100 years ago, but murdered citizens in Derry, invaded Iraq illegally with some 250,000 civilian deaths, complicit in torture in both NI and Iraq - and if I was to put more than a few seconds into this I could find quite a few other pretty much illegal acts.
Now that was a rhetorical question, of course you are still a sympathiser of your army, or more likely the actions of your nation - even though you will (maybe not publicly, but inside you know it) acknowledge that horrendous things have been done by your army, illegal things. It is possible to support your nation without having to necessarily agree with everything that has ever been done in it's name.
It's with this point I'd ask you to understand it's possible to be an Irish Republican without necessarily being proud of all the acts that were ever carried out by Irish Republicans - and I can acknowledge that there are quite a few historic events that I utterly am ashamed to be associated with.