Comments on: The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide A Site About Everything and Nothing Fri, 24 May 2013 10:55:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9195 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:06:30 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9195 LB, <i>it’s easy to criticise the young but they’re alright to be sent to war and killed</i> There's more than a little truth in that. It's also easy to take income tax from them but not let them vote or let them have sex but not let them have a cigarette afterwards ! Who'd be young again ? Not me ! Best Rod LB,
it’s easy to criticise the young but they’re alright to be sent to war and killed
There’s more than a little truth in that.
It’s also easy to take income tax from them but not let them vote or let them have sex but not let them have a cigarette afterwards !

Who’d be young again ?
Not me !
Best
Rod

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9194 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:08:32 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9194 Rod, Dad told me on Sunday that our Grandfather once said that it's easy to criticise the young but they're alright to be sent to war and killed. Made me think I can tell you. LB Rod,
Dad told me on Sunday that our Grandfather once said that it’s easy to criticise the young but they’re alright to be sent to war and killed. Made me think I can tell you.

LB

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9193 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:24:55 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9193 Annie, <b>Lest We Forget</b> As time passes so, sadly, do those who fought in order to give the likes of me the freedom to swan around like the Village Idiot - we need reminding for two reasons: To honour those whose to whom we'll always be beholden To ensure the like doesn't happen again Museums like this do a great job in doing this, especially for the young 'playstation generation' who may well now never have touch with anybody who did National Service. For anybody wondering what trench warfare and life in the trenches was like then you really should read the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (in fact you should read it anyway whether trench warfare ever crossed your mind or not - it is a sublime piece of work) Cheers Rod Annie,

Lest We Forget

As time passes so, sadly, do those who fought in order to give the likes of me the freedom to swan around like the Village Idiot - we need reminding for two reasons:
To honour those whose to whom we’ll always be beholden
To ensure the like doesn’t happen again

Museums like this do a great job in doing this, especially for the young ‘playstation generation’ who may well now never have touch with anybody who did National Service.

For anybody wondering what trench warfare and life in the trenches was like then you really should read the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (in fact you should read it anyway whether trench warfare ever crossed your mind or not - it is a sublime piece of work)

Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Annie Flinn http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9192 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:37:07 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9192 A German friend and I made a trip to Verdun, one of the horrible battle sites of WWI. As we approached the tunnels and remaining barricades on this summer day, the weather became brutally cold. One could just imagine what it must have been like in winter for the soldier assigned there-- men knee deep in mud and muck, enduring endless barrages of artillary, fighting day after day to take only a few feet of ground. When the soldiers finally succumbed to battle fatique, they were labeled cowards and either sent back to the front lines, or executed. Who ever thought that sending wave after wave of men into the teeth of machine gun fire was a smart way to do battle? I think it is good that museums try to show the misery of war, rather than the glorification of it. Kudos to the Lincoln museum for all its displays. Annie A German friend and I made a trip to Verdun, one of the horrible battle sites of WWI. As we approached the tunnels and remaining barricades on this summer day, the weather became brutally cold. One could just imagine what it must have been like in winter for the soldier assigned there– men knee deep in mud and muck, enduring endless barrages of artillary, fighting day after day to take only a few feet of ground. When the soldiers finally succumbed to battle fatique, they were labeled cowards and either sent back to the front lines, or executed. Who ever thought that sending wave after wave of men into the teeth of machine gun fire was a smart way to do battle?

I think it is good that museums try to show the misery of war, rather than the glorification of it. Kudos to the Lincoln museum for all its displays.

Annie

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9191 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:15:59 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9191 FF, it was my first visit there and I've been to Lincoln 100s of times. Definately well worth a trip. You may have been better off not getting the video :) Regards Rod FF,
it was my first visit there and I’ve been to Lincoln 100s of times.
Definately well worth a trip.
You may have been better off not getting the video :)
Regards
Rod

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Femme Fatale http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9190 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:34:27 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9190 Rod, Got the video now, I needed to run flash player!! where are the kids when you need them? :roll: FF xx Rod,

Got the video now, I needed to run flash player!! where are the kids when you need them? :roll:

FF
xx

]]> Comment on The Museum of Lincolnshire Life ~ A Visitors Guide by: Femme Fatale http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9189 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:28:45 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-museum-of-lincolnshire-life-a-visitors-guide#comment-9189 Rod, All I can say is WOW, what a fabulous find. I have visited Lincoln on many occasions and never knew the existence of this Museum but, thanks to you I will now put it on my to do list, for the children and I to visit during the summer holidays, which will be upon us on Friday of this week :cry: Also I have not got the Motorhead video, just a blank white square with a little red X in the corner :? FF xx Rod,

All I can say is WOW, what a fabulous find.
I have visited Lincoln on many occasions and never knew the existence of this Museum but, thanks to you I will now put it on my to do list, for the children and I to visit during the summer holidays, which will be upon us on Friday of this week :cry:

Also I have not got the Motorhead video, just a blank white square with a little red X in the corner :?

FF
xx

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