From here to eternity
WHO better deserves a prominent memorial: the singer whose “My Way” launched a thousand karaoke bars, or his 16m contemporaries who fought in the second world war? For the moment, it looks as if New York city will erect a statue of Frank Sinatra before Washington, DC, gets round to building a tribute to the troops whose ranks Sinatra joined only on celluloid. But neither is proving particularly easy work.
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