vera lynn, her most famous program was called "sincerely yours, vera lynn." it was a combination of vera lynn talking, scripted, reading scripted, but it was conversational, in a program in which she sang, so to speak, the representative of all the girls back home speaking to all the boys over abroad in many parts of the world on the various fighting fronts at that moment in the second world war. it is a sad fact that the discipline of sociology did not exist in england at this time, so we have no sociological studies of the impact of this very famous british wartime broadcaster. but we do have the responses of the daily press of the day, and they were unanimous. it is not only her fresh, young voice, but, there is no other word for it, it is her sincerity. it is not only the completely natural, unstudied quality of her singing that reaches out to people's hearts, there is no other word for it -- it is sincerity. i was intrigued by this. you could not explain this sudden outbreak of sincerity at the microphone in two different countries at exactly the same ti