{"id":13336,"date":"2015-05-25T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13336"},"modified":"2015-05-25T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:18:07","slug":"honoring-memorial-day-the-white-cliffs-of-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/honoring-memorial-day-the-white-cliffs-of-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Memorial Day: The White Cliffs of Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dame<\/a>

Dame Vera Lynn<\/p><\/div>\n

Today is Memorial Day, and I’m feeling humbly grateful to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Since I’ve been reading a lot of\u00a0WWII history lately,\u00a0I’ve also been playing a lot of WWII-era music here in my sanctuary to all things radio.<\/p>\n

Few songs sum up the yearning sentiment of World War II better than Vera Lynn’s 1942 rendition\u00a0of “The White Cliffs of Dover.” It’s an iconic song, one that helped British soldiers see beyond the war while\u00a0mourning its painful toll. It was written in 1941 when England\u00a0was taking heavy casualties, just before American allies joined the effort.<\/p>\n

\"Scott-Marine-Radio-SLR-M\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This morning, seeking something with a little authenticity, I played\u00a0“The White Cliffs of Dover” though my SStran AM transmitter<\/a>, and listened to it through “Scottie,” my WWII-era Scott Marine radio (above).\u00a0I made this recording by placing my Zoom H2N<\/a> recorder directly in front of the Scott’s built-in monitor speaker.<\/p>\n

So here you go:\u00a0a little radio tribute to all of those who fell–on both sides–of that infamous second world war.<\/p>\n

And thanks to all who serve and have served in the name of “peace ever after.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/VeraLynnWhiteCliffsOfDover\/Vera-Lynn-White-Cliffs-Of-Dover.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Memorial Day, and I’m feeling humbly grateful to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Since I’ve been reading a lot of\u00a0WWII history lately,\u00a0I’ve also been playing a lot of WWII-era music here in my sanctuary to all things radio. Few songs sum up the yearning sentiment of World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,8,433,3,288,26,43],"tags":[3491,3849,3496,3850,3851,676],"class_list":["post-13336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-articles","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radio-history","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-scott-marine-radio-slr-m","tag-sstran","tag-sstran-amt3000-am-transmitter","tag-vera-lynn","tag-white-cliff-of-dover","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3t6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37964,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/from-the-post-archives-honoring-memorial-day-with-dame-vera-lynn\/","url_meta":{"origin":13336,"position":0},"title":"From the Post Archives: Honoring Memorial Day with Dame Vera Lynn","author":"Thomas","date":"May 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The following Memorial Day post was originally published on May 25th, 2015: Today is Memorial Day, and I'm feeling humbly grateful to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 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