Irene Triplett, last recipient of US Civil War pension, as daughter conceived late in life of a Confederate soldier who deserted to fight on the Union side. [url]https://www.foxnews.com/science/last-person-civil-war-era-pension-died-last-week[/url]

Bonnie Pointer:

[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/08/entertainment/bonnie-pointer-obit/index.html[/URL]

[URL="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53072938"]Bob[/URL]

[QUOTE=xilman;548237][URL="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53072938"]Bob[/URL][/QUOTE]
You had me worried there with that single name. I thought that one from among use had been laid low.

Vera Lynn
 

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;548254]You had me worried there with that single name. I thought that one from among use had been laid low.[/QUOTE]

[url]https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/uk/vera-lynn-dead-gbr-intl-scli/index.html[/url]

[QUOTE=R.D. Silverman;548375][URL]https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/uk/vera-lynn-dead-gbr-intl-scli/index.html[/URL][/QUOTE]


Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
"We would meet again, some sunny day"
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
-Pink Floyd, The Wall

[QUOTE=kladner;548392]Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
"We would meet again, some sunny day"
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
-Pink Floyd, The Wall[/QUOTE]Contemporary version:

Whale meat again.

In the early forties Brits had to eat whatever was available.

[QUOTE=kladner;548392]Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
"We would meet again, some sunny day"
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
-Pink Floyd, The Wall[/QUOTE]

My father fondly remembered her singing "We'll Meet Again" while he was a GI stationed in England waiting to join the fight on the mainland.

Of course, I remember it from the ending scenes of "Dr. Strangelove" showing all the bombs exploding because the doomsday device had been triggered.

[QUOTE=tServo;548439]...stationed in England waiting to join the fight on the mainland...
[/QUOTE]
Brilliantly expressed!

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Shadow of the Wind, dies aged 55

[URL="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000453/"]Ian Holm[/URL], who played Bilbo Baggins.