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Politicians are now afraid of "We The People" and the political elites in their fear are just as drunk and crazy as the few folks who chose mayhem and violence at the US Capitol on Wednesday. I want peace and serenity, sanity and sobriety but the people have been intoxicated with rage. And who did it? A lot did... It looks like the folks on the Left in the Deep State FBI Justice Department the social media magnates are in purge attack mode no holds barred as we enter this Saturday morning... Last week I told you about the phoney...

Dame Vera Lynn was the 'forces' sweetheart' during the Second World War, performing for troops as they fought enemy forces around the globe with inspirational songs that gave them hope on their darkest days that they would see home again. Her extraordinary career stretched 96 years, beginning when she was seven and continuing until just six weeks ago when she sang 'We'll Meet Again' with Katherine Jenkins to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. In her final interview before she died, she described her bond with the Allied troops who gave or risked their lives for their country -...

Before the music lets talk about plans for next week in Idaho with legislators seeking to end martial law and the emergency rule of Republican Governor Brad Little. They intend to attempt a meeting on Tuesday morning at 9 am in Boise at the State Capitol...... And Dame Vera Lynn passed away this week at the age of 103. She is remembered for her wartime singing but of course that song "We'll Meet Again" was the closing of "Dr. Strangelove's" working the government officials to dictate our lives.... I guess this is a good lead into John Bolton and his...

Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103. The singer's family confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives. "The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers at the age of 103," a statement said. Dame Vera was best known for performing for the troops during WW2 in countries including India and Egypt. Her family said information on a memorial will be announced at a later date.

Dame Vera Lynn, who’s rendition of We’ll Meet Again became an anthem for hope during World War Two, has died at the age of 103. “The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers at the age of 103,” a statement said. “Dame Vera Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, passed away earlier today, 18th June 2020, surrounded by her close family.” ,p> The singer and actress, dubbed the Forces’ Sweetheart, rose to fame during the second World War. Lynn is best known for hits such as We’ll Meet Again, her rendition of...

Vera Lynn, the British singer whose songs provided hope for Allied troops during World War II, died Thursday at 103. “The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers at the age of 103," the singer's family said in a statement. "Dame Vera Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, passed away earlier today, 18 June 2020, surrounded by her close family.” Lynn was most known for her songs "The White Cliffs of Dover" and "We'll Meet Again," the latter serving as the melody in the ending montage of Stanley Kubrick's famed movie, "Dr....

Dame Vera Lynn has used her 103rd birthday to call on the British public to find "moments of joy" during these "hard times". The London-born singer marked the special occasion with a new video for her wartime classic We'll Meet Again.

Renowned wartime singer Dame Vera Lynn has described reaching her 100th birthday as "an incredible adventure of song, dance and friendship".

Dame Vera Lynn, 97, to release new album On the day she turns 97, Dame Vera Lynn has announced plans for a new album. She is best known for songs including We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs Of Dover, which buoyed the spirits of millions during World War Two. Both songs will feature alongside a selection of previously unreleased recordings on Vera Lynn: National Treasure - The Ultimate Collection. It will be released on 2 June, to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which occurs four days later. "I think it's wonderful that my songs are still...

Today is the birthday of one of the most popular singers during the Second World War...Dame Vera Lynn, DBE (born Vera Margaret Welch arrived on 20 March 1917). Lynn is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular with the Allied troops and the Brits on the homefront. Continue reading on Examiner.com There'll Always Be an England's Vera Lynn is 95 today - National Swing and Big Band | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/swing-and-big-band-in-national/there-ll-always-be-an-england-s-vera-lynn-is-95-today#ixzz1pfuF6evT

For a generation of Britons who lived through World War II, Dame Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" will forever conjure up the pangs of wartime separation. "We'll meet again," she sang to soldiers on the front lines and to their families across the Channel. "We'll meet again/ Don't know where/ Don't know when/ But I know we'll meet again/ Some sunny day." The songstress appears to have kept her promise. Last week, at age 92, Lynn became the oldest artist to top the British charts with We'll Meet Again — The Very Best of Vera Lynn, an album featuring 24...

At 92, Dame Vera Lynn is still merrily doing her bit for Britain – and pulling off a mean impression of Marlene Dietrich. To mark the publication of her latest memoir, she talks (and sings) to Nigel Farndale The woman who answers the door has a face at once strange and familiar. She looks like Dame Vera Lynn, only how she would have looked about 30 years ago. It is more a trick of the genes than the light. 'I'm Vera's daughter,' she says in a voice similar to her mother's, with its faint traces of the East End....

Second World War songbird Vera Lynn, the voice behind The White Cliffs of Dover, will be giving a "full account" of her life in a new autobiography. The 91-year-old British singer, who became a sweetheart to soldiers with songs such as We'll Meet Again, says her upcoming book — due out in June — will speak to her hard-luck upbringing in London's east end and cover her career from the time she began performing in local clubs to her post-war life. "People have been hearing about me for many years, I know, but the publishers think it is a story...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joined a chorus of "Happy Birthday" for wartime singer Vera Lynn, who turned 90 on Tuesday. Lynn, nicknamed the "Forces' sweetheart" who entertained the troops during World War Two, was honoured at a small ceremony held at the Imperial War Museum in London where she joined guests in watching a short film about her life. Katherine Jenkins, a young Welsh singer who has taken over the mantle of unofficial darling of British troops serving abroad, performed two of Lynn's most famous songs -- "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover"....

Dame Vera Lynn, who entertained Britain's armed forces during the Second World War, is celebrating her 90th birthday at London's Imperial War Museum on Tuesday. Current 'forces sweetheart' Katherine Jenkins will perform Lynn's war-time hits "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover" during birthday celebrations that will be attended by Winston Churchill's granddaughter Lady Soames, author Jilly Cooper, Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes and dozens of Second World War veterans. Dame Vera was chosen as the 'forces sweetheart' by readers of the Daily Express in 1939, and she travelled thousands of miles, often at personal risk, to entertain...