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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy Birthday, Vera Lynn. One Hundred Years Old!
One of the great entertainers of the WWII era, she is still alive and still making albums!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/20/well-meet-again-vera-lynn-promised-wartime-britain-at-100-shes-still-keeping-her-word/?utm_term=.f22cacef6f06
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/vera-lynns-face-lights-up-10060074
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Happy Birthday, Vera Lynn. One Hundred Years Old! (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Mar 2017
OP
Don't know where, don't know when, but I'm wishing you the best Vera Lynn..n/t
monmouth4
Mar 2017
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Yes
Orrex
(63,225 posts)2. Holy shit that's amazing!
What a remarkable life!
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)3. Wow...
Hats off to her!
gademocrat7
(10,672 posts)4. Happy Birthday, Vera Lynn!
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)5. pink floyd
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)6. Indeed! Them and others over the decades.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)7. For her birthday, her photo will be projected on the white cliffs of Dover!
It's in the little video at the WaPo link in the OP.
redwitch
(14,948 posts)8. I love her.
And those two songs are my favorites!
monmouth4
(9,710 posts)9. Don't know where, don't know when, but I'm wishing you the best Vera Lynn..n/t