on 18-06-2020 07:31 PM
18-06-2020 07:51 PM - edited 18-06-2020 07:52 PM
on 18-06-2020 07:51 PM
on 18-06-2020 08:00 PM
on 18-06-2020 08:15 PM
Wow. I actually thought she passed away years ago. Gosh she did well. 103! Good on her!
Classic song "We'll Meet Again". many people love it.
Cool lady too.
on 18-06-2020 08:28 PM
My mum told me once that during the war she used to get all teary every time they played 'White Cliifs Of Dover'.
One verse went:
The shepherd will tend his sheep
The valley will bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again
My Dad's name was Jimmy and he was away for 31/2 years in a POW camp.
on 18-06-2020 09:17 PM
I still sing the White cliffs of Dover to myself, my mum used to sing it all the time 😞
on 18-06-2020 09:23 PM
Wasn't she called The Sweetheart of the Forces?
As someone wrote she was a nightingale.
My British mum came here to marry towards the end of the war but was separated from her large family for years. She was terribly homesick and just loved We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover, played them over and over.Vera Lynn was a kind of beacon in her life as she was for so many.
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on 18-06-2020 09:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MummZBgO3Ek
Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979.
Goodbye, Vera, and thank you...
🙂
on 19-06-2020 08:36 PM