Shortly before the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, Radio Londres broadcast the first stanza of Paul Verlaine’s poem “Chanson d’automne” to let the resistance know that the invasion would begin within 24 hours.
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone, “wound my heart with a monotonous languor” was the call to action, the signal to go!
By late 1944, Allied victory in France sounded the end of Radio Londres.
Lurleen never missed out on the high school dances, including sock hops and three (3) proms, car smashes for charity, raffle contests to collect canned goods for the poor and needy in and around Chicago, and any charity dog or cat show benefitting stray and lost animals,
Joey Tymkowych
