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Vera Lynn.
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That’s lovely, saintPeter. Reminds me of my gramps who was a PoW, and my gran didn’t know if he was alive or dead, with two children to look after. Thankfully, he got back. They loved Vera Lynn.
10:11 Thu 18th Jun 2020
//Surely a candidate for a statue. Her morale-boosting work in the war has got to rank her amongst those who helped us win.//
Yes. In fact they could actually do away with the statue and simply erect a large metal box. I imagine Dame Vera's connections with the country's wartime efforts will not go down at all well with the "woke" crowd, bearing in mind their views of Sir Winston, who steered us through our efforts to impose our Imperialist views on the world.
Yes. In fact they could actually do away with the statue and simply erect a large metal box. I imagine Dame Vera's connections with the country's wartime efforts will not go down at all well with the "woke" crowd, bearing in mind their views of Sir Winston, who steered us through our efforts to impose our Imperialist views on the world.
God welcome and comfort our Vera. A woman of her time, one of the golden generation that pulled together and saved Britain, at least for a while. She was a true British Icon, brave enough to travel to far flung places that were at the time very remote, in machines that were not as reliable as we expect now. Places that were threatened by people who would gladly have killed or captured her for propaganda purposes, as they would have wished for any of our high ranking forces or Government officials. She still went, insisted on it. That is why the troops loved her. That is why the people of Britain loved her. She would not be a British Mother/Sister/ Sweetheart figurehead today with that attitude would she. Perhaps if she dressed like she was auditioning for a blue movie, was proficient in profanity, a couple of face piercings perhaps, a tattoo or two, even a bit of secret but loudly proclaimed confused sexuality for good measure. Be a new British Icon then wouldn't she? Sometimes I feel as if I am watching Tolkien's Lord of the Rings being enacted. Some elves have been captured and corrupted into orcs. A brave, few, old fashioned souls sacrifice themselves and to serve the common good, some weary of fighting evil and duplicity and neglect their responsibility to rest. The aged and pure gather one last time to pass to a realm of perfection that will be closed to the false. RIP Vera Lynn, one of our flawless.
I'd have to agree with your Dad, Anne, though Vera wasn't really trying to win any singing competitions. And her original recording of "We'll Meet Again" accompanied by a Novachord is really weird! The Novachord was mainly used for sound effects in horror and science fiction movies, and gives the song a very ethereal feel.
I remember Ann Shelton. She was always on The Billy Cotton Band Show and the Black & White Minstrels, Sunday Night at the London Palladium etc. Vera Lynn appeared those as well.
However, senior military officials in WW2 weren't keen on Vera Lynn because they said she weakened the mens' fighting resolve by making them melancholy and homesick. But the men loved her. We've heard that for years haven't we?
However, senior military officials in WW2 weren't keen on Vera Lynn because they said she weakened the mens' fighting resolve by making them melancholy and homesick. But the men loved her. We've heard that for years haven't we?
