06-19-2020, 01:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-19-2020, 04:50 PM by Tim Randal Walker.)
Looked at the Wikipedia article for Vera Lynn. She was born March 20th, 1917, during World War I. She was well into her career by the time Britain was confronted by World War II.
The "forces' Sweetheart" would have been 23 years old during the Battle of Britain ( summer of 1940).
Of course, the 20th was a rather tumultuous century, so she would have seen enormous changes during the course of her long life. She a young adult during a Crisis a lifetime ago and survived long enough to reach another Crisis era.
Oddly enough, once someone reaches their hundredth birthday, I think of them as a sort of time traveler.
The "forces' Sweetheart" would have been 23 years old during the Battle of Britain ( summer of 1940).
Of course, the 20th was a rather tumultuous century, so she would have seen enormous changes during the course of her long life. She a young adult during a Crisis a lifetime ago and survived long enough to reach another Crisis era.
Oddly enough, once someone reaches their hundredth birthday, I think of them as a sort of time traveler.