We'Ll Meet Again Poem by gershon hepner

“We’ll meet again, ” sang Vera Lynn,
more than sixty years ago,
and now, when records do not spin,
and spin is what men say they know
but really don’t, because they never wore
the moccasins of those they claim
to understand from days of yore,
we listen, asking what became
of all those heroes who once fought
for liberty and freedom and
believed the values they were taught,
their heads not hidden in the sand,
and realize that although Vera
sang out “We’ll meet again, ” they wouldn’t,
because time marched into an era
where what they hoped to do they couldn’t.

Inspired by Dame Vera Lynn’s song “We’ll Meet Again, ” which is top of the charts in the UKS, more than sixty years after she sang it http: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=cHcunREYzNY) . Dame Vera is 92 years old, and this song is currently more popular than the songs of the Beatles’ that were re-released in a new format less than a week ago. Wikipedia explains:
'We'll Meet Again' is a 1939 song made famous by British singer Vera Lynn (#29 (US,1954)) with music written by Ross Parker and lyrics by Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous songs of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The assertion that 'we'll meet again' is optimistic, as many soldiers did not survive to see their loved ones again. Indeed, the meeting place at some unspecified time in the future would have been seen by many who lost loved ones to be heaven. The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Vera Lynn played the lead role. Lynn's recording is featured in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. During the Cold War, Vera Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) , designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.


9/17/09