News about Tex Ritter
'Her Majesty's first Friend told the Forces that she had a long friendship with the late Queen as she seeks to build a statue of the beloved singer.'
www.dailymail.co.uk,
December 8, 2023
Dame Vera Lynn's daughter is requesting funds to install a memorial monument. During World War II, the legendary entertainer risked her life visiting troops in order to give people who called'my boys' a new lease on life with morale-boosting songs such as We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs Of Dover. She selflessly carried out more charitable causes in the decades that followed, with the words in We'll Meet Again resonating once more during the coronavirus pandemic when the Queen used them to incite modern Britain to evoke the spirit of the wartime period.