Explorer

[alf corbyn]

I would suggest the PC brigade take a look at some of the aussies books about aboriginals. they were hunted and killed for sport, especially by the Irish immigrant miners.

[Captain Kong]

iN 1959, I remember being in the Anchor Bar in Mombasa, a regular crowd of colonial types were in there always
pi55ed, and one said they were going into Uganda for a couple of weeks to shoot a few blacks.
Dont know if it was true or not, but they disappeared. Didnt see them again.
So it could have been going on in those days.
Brian.

[Captain Kong]

I also thought that Sir Ernest Shackleton was also one of our greatest explorers. tho` the Antarctic kind. Captain Cook was also a good one.
Brian.

[Ivan Cloherty]

The world is full of academics who berate past exploits of brave men who entered the unknown without any immediate form of communication with the outside world. You can bet that most, if not all, of these self serving politically correct brigade have never ventured further than from their armchairs to their computers to castigate men whose boots they are not fit to lick. It is easy to be brave when you know that will never have to be and will never be placed in a situation that these explorers were.

[Lou Barron]

As one Lou to another Lou good on you doing what you are going to do post 1keep the old brain active

[John Pruden]

try sitting down and explore our own lives from first memories to today we have come a long way the ups and downs to losing of loved ones the lost loves watching the kids grow. most in the forties become orphans we take over from were our parents left off we all everyone carry a history I had to relearn a lot in my 50s life is to exciting and learning is our nature and if you don't learn something new every day its a waste of time getting out of bed{bit heavy this one} jp

[j.sabourn]

All the best to Louis for taking on what he is doing. My daughter among other things has a degree in History which she received 20 odd years ago. I do not know too much about how deep she had to go into it, but as youngsters we at school went all the way back especially into British history. She as I knew it had to choose a period in history, and she chose the Hitler years. Hence I said to Louis to choose his own lifetime which I doubt would be acceptable. Anyhow good on you for taking it on, you will succeed . Regards John Sabourn

[Lou Barron]

For myself i am in the process of writing a book on my own life at sea in the war and other things but i am finding it hard work but i will keep on trying

[j.sabourn]

Statues... There are still people living today that still admire Hitler and consider him a hero. Anyone with pen and paper can find excuses for anyone of the past. We may in years to come still have statues of same erected. Apart from that there are countries that have vowed to continue his master plan to exterminate the Hebrew nation down to the last man woman and child. The past leader of Iraq had his statues pulled down, I can see not too long in the unforeseeable future to these being re-erected. Statues in any case are a form of worship going back to the age of idol worshipping. We now have life personages in the form of pop stars for those who wish to worship something. Even Nelson who was knocking off someone elses wife was not a complete moral person, don't think anyone is unless you consider God as a person. For all those moralistic persons trying to judge personages of a couple of hundred years ago, I would say look to your own life and don't try and interfere with things you have no idea of the reasons and the times of such actions, except those that have been made up to fit the occasion. Some of our forefathers were heroes in their own right by just surviving. John Sabourn

[cappy]

#19 morning john cappy no sleepee what you say very true but as I get older I just think so many things we say don't make any difference to anything unless its in our own close family........words written in the sand in comes the tide were they ever there