Posted on 05/30/2019 6:41:16 AM PDT by C19fan
A D-Day veteran aged 90 has hit the No 1 spot in the Amazon music chart – ahead of Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.
Jim Radford's haunting ballad The Shores Of Normandy – featuring lyrics about men who 'stormed the gates of hell' and 'died upon that blood-soaked sand' – was released only a week ago.
It has edged ahead of Sheeran and Bieber's joint hit I Don't Care in the online store's chart, regarded as a barometer of what could be a future official No 1.
Mr Radford, the youngest known D-Day veteran, was inspired to write the folk song about his experiences as a 15-year-old galley boy on a ship on June 6, 1944.
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Sigh. I wish it could let it get my eyes blurry. But I have enough of those Veterans For Peace Leftists that it is really hard to get past it.
And it is a totally, far Left organization. I will eat my hat if there is one single conservative affiliated with them.
I have to remind myself he is entitled to his opinions and affiliations, as much as I may detest the affiliations.
I know people will say “Why do you have to bring politics into it?” but they are a completely political organization.
Darn it.
At 15, Justin Bieber was thinking what kind of tattoo to get while Ed Sheeran was getting more donuts.
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