Vox Populi

During World War II, many young men and women, all around the world, left their regular jobs, families, and home, and went to a land, unknown to them, to fight a long war.

Families were torn apart, many, never again to be reunited.  They all longed for the day when there would once again be peace in the world, and they could be together again.

Few professions typify this more than the American movie industry.

During a time of critical need, many left left lucrative jobs in the movies to join “the war effort”.  Their names are well-known in the US, not for their military service, but for their acting, directing, writing, cinematography, or producing careers.

One of those “actor-soldiers” was the American Singing Cowboy icon, Gene Autry.  He left Hollywood, along with hundreds of others, and was separated from his family by the war.

When he returned home and “the lights came on again, all over the world”, he returned to the Silver Screen with a song and a movie, “Back In The Saddle, Again”, to the delight of his fans.

Thanks to Brian and our other Admins who worked so diligently to upgrade this valuable site with so very few “hitches”.  One of the casualties of the upgrade was the deathless prose of my first blog entry: Vox Populi.

Never again will prose be elevated to such high form, and now, it’s lost to the world!  Gone to that great “bit bucket” in the sky!     : )

Oh, well, the thoughts weren’t that important in the first place, I guess.  If you’ve stayed with me long enough to read to this point, I promise to do my best to get “back in the saddle, again”, with posts ever higher and more lofty, and . . . hopefully . . . more worthwhile reading!

~ art