Hayley's hymn Young star serenades her fallen forever silenced in Flanders fields

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The vibrant voice of Hayley Westenra floated across the Tyne Cot cemetery headstones and briefly haunted the soldiers sleeping an eternal slumber in the mass grave of Passchendaele.rnAs the celebrated soprano sang Abide With Me, sighs from the hundreds of thousands of men swallowed by the bloody campaign waged in a cramped corner of the Western Front were almost audible. Marking the 90th anniversary of the Third battle ofYpres, the New Zealand star sang in tribute to her fellow countrymen who fought valiantly alongside their British comrades.rnBut 20-year-old Hayley also counted a personal cost of the human sacrifice paid by the soldiers in 1917 as they doggedly advanced through the Flanders' mud to the German lines.