Dream Streets Radio Show Presents Poems of Jean-Henri Sadot

Dream Streets Radio Presents “Poems of Jean-Henri Sadot” is a video created from a 2003 radio audio track. This particular Dreamstreets show aired on July 28, 2003 in Newark, DE on WVUD, the Voice of the University of Delaware. The poems on this video are: Iron Hill, White Clay Creek, The Statue of Liberty; Summertime Sunset; Blizzard; Little Girl’s Bedtime; and The Moods of the Sea.

Steven Leach is the Host of Dream Streets on WVUD and the founding editor of the print version. Vic Sadot, son of the poet, is reading Jean-Henri Sadot poems, or sharing renderings of them into song as he relates the history behind the poems of Jean-Henri Sadot.

SYNOPSIS: Introduction & discussion of Jean-Henri Sadot’s childhood in Normandy, just across from England; his involvement starting at age 20 in WWII as a French soldier, Resistance camp participant in the Pyrennes Mountains on the Spanish border, and his escape from Nazi occupied France on a battleship running out of Toulon harbor that went to North Africa and then to Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City for retooling for warfare in the invasion of Provence in 1944. Jean Sadot’s poems carry themes and perspectives on history and nature often grounded in local places or very personal experiences. He worked on the Chrysler assembly line and attended classes at the University of Delaware while raising 5 children with his wife Eleanor Lafferty, who grew up on a farm in Landenberg, PA and graduated from Kennett Square High School before serving in New York City as a Navy Wave office worker during WWII. They met in a Broadway Cafe and wrote letters until reuniting after the war.

There is a discussion of strained French-American relations in 2003 due to the new invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US and UK under G W Bush and Tony Blair. The French and Germans were very much against this war. G W Bush and Dick Cheney and the NeoCons had lied to make war and profited from it with their fellow “Masters of War”. In 2003 the US and UK were not supported in the military and cultural destruction of Iraq. Notably, NATO and France and Germany were against the invasion of Iraq as they were doing business there too, as were many American enterprises. At the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landing in Normandy France, President Bush insulted the French by comparing his recent 2003 invasion of Iraq to the 1944 liberation of France.