Yet We Simply Have To (in Vera Lynn's case)...since the late singer outlived both world wars and the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq War #1, 9/11, Iraq War #2...and the Rise of Sissii International...But Sadly Not the Era of COVID-19 (Though this was not what finished her off, I gather), 'Whose' Distant 'Cousin', the Spanish Flu, Itself Took a Massive Toll At the Very Time (1917) She Came Upon the Scene: But Having Gone Almost 50% Over Humanity's Allotted 'Threescore and Ten', Good On the 'Choraler' of the Troops in WW11 for Reaching 103...the Same Day Me Good 'Ole Mum Attained 86 (Beating my Dad by 7-and-two-thirds Years Plus, Though He'd been born 7-and-a-half years prior to her!), My Mother Sharing the Same Day as a Best of British Politico (with the Selfsame Birth-year Evidently as Yours Truly), None Other Than Brave Boris himself...