Dame Vera tells pop stars to back our boys
DAME Vera Lynn has hit out at today’s young music stars for not offering their support to British troops fighting abroad.
The 92-year-old national treasure cannot understand why there are no songs in the singles charts dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of our soldiers in Afghanistan.
Most modern artists are mollycoddled and could not stand battlefront conditions as she did, says the Forces Sweetheart, who earned her nickname for entertaining Allied troops in the Second World War.
She tells this week’s Radio Times: “It’s strange there aren’t any special songs for Afghanistan. In the Second World War, the whole country was behind our boys.”
The White Cliffs Of Dover star who last month launched the Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal adds: “Nowadays a lot can’t sing unless they’ve got all their equipment and it’s not easy carting that stuff around in the jungle.”
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Nowadays a lot can’t sing unless they’ve got all their equipment and it’s not easy carting that stuff around in the jungle
One chart group who is showing support is The Soldiers, a trio of servicemen.
Their album Coming Home hit No 4 in the charts over the weekend.