Dame Vera Lynn

[Detritus]

RIP.

A good innings, both in length and what she has given.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53091856

 

[ian08040]

RIP Dame Vera.

 

[LancsGordoRoad]

RIP Dame Vera - a wonderful woman. Her voice was no doubt comfort to many young men in far off places going through the sort of horror that most of us will, thankfully, never have to experience.

Let`s hope there`s not a fuss when people start talking about where to put her statue.

 

[OneSirKeefy]

Now there is a full and long life well worth celebrating.

RIP Dame Vera.

 

[jogills]

My uncle, a tail gunner in a Lancaster, would weep whenever he heard her sing. Naturally I onle ever knew him as a civilian, a small and funny man as far from a warrior as one could imagine.

 

[Whitstabletangerine]

RIP Dame Vera Lynn.

My uncle, a tail gunner in a Lancaster,

Now that was a lonely and cold place to be for four or five hours, he would have been a very brave man to have carried out that task. Respect.

 

[Jerryattrick]

At my dads funeral the church was absolutely jam packed and we had the royal marines supply a bugler for the last post.
I had to choose the main song for the funeral and chose we’ll meet again by vera Lynn. As it started the whole church broke into song - so moving and unless you lived that era I don't think we can picture the conditions and sacrifice by that generation.

 

[Buddha]

Anybody got any Veras?!

RIP Dame Vera Lynn

 

[mehmets_curlies]

My earliest musical memory is my Mum playing Vera Lynn singing "My son, my son" to me when I was a very poorly kid. Chokes me up every time I hear it. Went to see my Mum today and she was quite sad over it. She said " At least She's with her boys now". A lovely thing to say, I thought.

 

[Jerryattrick]

My earliest musical memory is my Mum playing Vera Lynn singing "My son, my son" to me when I was a very poorly kid. Chokes me up every time I hear it. Went to see my Mum today and she was quite sad over it. She said " At least She's with her boys now". A lovely thing to say, I thought.

Its the way everyone from that era seems to talk about her and its always ‘the boys’.

 

[nitram77]

RIP Vera.

 

[chris who]

That is crazy only today going through the tunnel I was singing "wish me luck as you wave me goodbye".I don't know what time news broke but I did not know.May she be blessed and be able to sing to those who paid the highest price all those years ago again. RIP Vera.

 

[mehmets_curlies]

Its the way everyone from that era seems to talk about her and its always ‘the boys’.

I know. My mum volunteeeed at 15, in 1940, and became a cook in Sussex. She has always mentioned the sadness over "my boys that didb't return", especially with the RAF guys

 

[Chippygill]

heard they are going to be doing clapping for Dame Vera don't know where don't know when !!!!