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RIP Dame Vera Lynn

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Great innings. 

    Rest Peacefully.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,155
    RIP Dame Vera. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    more than just 'a life' .. during a struggle for Britain's survival she was a figure of tough and unbeatable Britishness to rank alongside Britannia .. R I P Vera 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    RIP
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    Oh no, oh my.......she has been a personality firmly implanted in my conscience for my entire life.
    What a fantastic life and such a genuinely lovely lady.
    She really did put her life on the line during WW2 for the war effort, she could quite easily have taken a much safer path. 
    Tear in the eye time again SoundAs......it happens more and more the older one gets.

    RIP......Vera......RIP.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP. 
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,054
    RIP. 
  • WSA
    WSA Posts: 1,913
    RIP Dame Vera
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469

    RIP Dame Vera.

    What a lady, one off the truly great British ladies.

  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    Such a sad loss for the country. She was someone who you thought would just live for ever. A remarkable lady who was loved by almost everyone 
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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    RIP Dame Vera.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited June 2020
    When somebody dies at such a fantastic age, it is not so sad, but an opportunity to celebrate an extraordinary and well lived life. R.I.P.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    RIP Dame Vera. A sad day but what a wonderful innings she had. 
  • McCartney
    McCartney Posts: 390

    RIP. My Mum wrote to her earlier this year saying she remembered seeing her at the New Cross Empire in the late 40's early 50's.  She loved the dress Vera wore so much she bought one like it. She got a lovely letter back saying she remembered the dress and might still have it. 

    Also remembered seeing (or  at least hearing) her at the Crystal Palace Bowel sometime back in the mid 80's.  She sang We'll meet Again at the end of a anti-heroin concert headlined by Hawkwind.    

  • Welly
    Welly Posts: 493
    RIP a true legend a sad day .


  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,972
    My condolences to her family and friends, a sad loss for all us as well. When ever items about her appeared on the tv, always made me think of my parents both of whom died decades ago, and what they might have might have been doing when they heard one of her songs for the first time, for example my dad was a merchant seaman during the war, so where could he have been, It is those kind of thoughts she generated for me.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    edited June 2020
    Vera Lynn was one of East Ham's finest exports. Me being another.

    RIP Vera, you were a legend, me less so. 
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    Rest in Peace Dame Vera. What a great lady. The end of an era.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited June 2020
    Favourite person I met in all my time on the road for ITN.

    Genuinely lovely person, and very funny too. She made me and our producer a cup of tea in her house in Kent (or Sussex?), and was very amused that I thought it was such a big deal (my very young producer didn't really know who she was).

    "I can't believe this, wait til I tell my mum that Vera Lynn made me a cup of tea!"
    After explaining to the producer how Vera was more than a legend, but was a 'historical figure', Vera laughed and said, "No, I'm just a singer from the East End!"

    She was full of life, and had incredible stories to tell. She'd talk to you all day, and it wasn't long enough.

    RIP Vera.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    RIP
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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    McCartney said:

    RIP. My Mum wrote to her earlier this year saying she remembered seeing her at the New Cross Empire in the late 40's early 50's.  She loved the dress Vera wore so much she bought one like it. She got a lovely letter back saying she remembered the dress and might still have it. 

    Also remembered seeing (or  at least hearing) her at the Crystal Palace Bowel sometime back in the mid 80's.  She sang We'll meet Again at the end of a anti-heroin concert headlined by Hawkwind.    

    So typical of her that she wrote back. That's a lovely story, as is the Hawkwind one. 
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,738
    Sleep tight, lovely Vera.

    Played her singing " We'll meet again" at my Mum's funeral.
  • TotalAddicktion
    TotalAddicktion Posts: 314
    The forces sweetheart and a true British legend, hero

  • TotalAddicktion
    TotalAddicktion Posts: 314
    RIP Dame Vera
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP , don't make um like that anymore.
  • mistrollingin62
    mistrollingin62 Posts: 378
    RIP Dame Vera Lynn. What a lady, what a life!

    My Mum and Dad absolutely adored her.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    RIP Dame Vera, a very very good singer and a true British Icon. She seemed to be a lovely lady, who was unaffected by fame.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,856
    RIP
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,246
    Rest in peace Dame Vera 

    What a life 
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    RIP Dame Vera, they'll never be another like you. You raised the spirits of so many during the war. The phrase national treasure should be retired now.

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