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Dr. Caldwell

May 12, 2011

Literature Review

War

What is it good forAbsolutely nothing

WarWhat is it good forAbsolutely nothing

War is something that I despiseFor it means destruction of innocent lives

For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyesWhen their sons go out to fight to give their lives


Say it againWar

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

WarIt's nothing but a heartbreaker

WarFriend only to the undertaker

War is the enemy of all mankindThe thought of war blows my mind

Handed down from generation to generationInduction destruction

Who wants to die

War has shattered many young men's dreamsMade them disabled bitter and mean, Life is too precious to be fighting wars

each dayWar can't give life it can only take it away


War

Friend only to the undertakerPeace love and understanding

There must be some place for these things todayThey say we must fight to keep our freedom

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But Lord there's gotta be a better wayThat's better than

War

WarWhat is it good for

Absolutely nothingSay it again


Introduction

The year of my musical awakening and the year of turbulence that defined our nations

crossroads with unnecessary acts of aggression and war were one and the same (1968). The

draft required mass amounts of inner city young men to act as agents of nation building, the

red scare of communism turned out to be a red herring for the build-up of the Industrial

Military Complex (Why We Fight Netflix) using tactics of shock and awe and scorched

earth policies (total barbaric destruction of all living things) that had been used since the

pilgrims hit the shores of the eastern United States (and before that in history by the Vikings,

Mongols, King David in the Old Testament etc.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe)

[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth

As war was broadcast on television for the first time, the graphic images and savagery of

war was born into the American consciousness. American military infantrymen began to rebel

against this mass murder and their leadership was questioned at all levels of morality, ethics,

and treatment to humanity as a whole. Many, if not most military men found these heinous acts

of war too extreme for their civilized senses, and began revolts, at first in small, innocuous

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ways like symbols of peace signs and acronyms of FTR (F*@k the Army)[Appendix #4]. This

internal insurrection began to spread among the troops brought into indoctrinating chimes of

racial slurs and the standard training of de-humanization of all other forms of races, cultures

and civilizations. It was within this environment that my uncles, their friends and the walking

wounded of the Vietnam War built the residue of who I am today. I knew very little of the

war, its impact or it purposes or effects on my personal life as an eight-year-old child in 1968.

But the effects of the war on the men that walked through our familys doors left a life-long

impression. Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (pp. 115-118) chronicles

the impact of Vietnam on un-enlisted men verses enlisted men, the recourse that eventually

followed with the demographics of men of brown or black color representing over fifty percent

(50%) of the rifle companies and fatalities while representing less than 20% of the U.S.

demographics of the time (see Appendix #3)[3]. (reported casualties experienced for the U.S.

in the Vietnam War: 58,000 casualties/deaths over the course of the war not including injuries

and loss of limb, mental condition and the after effects of war like cancer from Agent Orange

defoliant spray and 3 million, 270,000 deaths of Vietnamese citizens, the demographic

equivalent of U.S. population at that time to 27 million losses to life). http://icasualties.org/

The anti-war slogans ofWar What is it Good for Absolutely NOTHING [Say it

again] War. (see Appendix #5 for lyrics) [4] acted as propaganda, campaigns, activism

and unification of action and protest. Much of the so called turn on and fade out generation of

hippies were fighting for their lives and knew it. Vietnam and the transformation of

American Life (Buzzanco, 1999) tells the story that among soldiers in Vietnam, there was a

clear correlation between status and education relating to their chance of survival. Songs like

Credence Clearwater Revivals Fortunate Son[Lyrics Appendix #6] chronicled the

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allowance of the facades of power & prestige hiding behind cowardice and cunning as

Military Reserve Heroes who were hidden behind the combat lines safe from harm, while the

nave serf public was used as bullet catchers and fodder for war. Then to add insult to

injury, we had to wait for them to come into power as Senators sons, their positions and power

held over by generations of their predecessors acting in their own self interest of incestuous

family of power. The result was the indiscriminate annihilation of populations of other races

due to discriminatory forces of the day.

The subtle rebellion of the musical advances ofJimi Hendrix (Who was patriotic about the

U.S.s ideology for the war, but against the human abuses he saw or experienced), acted as a

voice within the conflict and aided the cause whereas capitalistic monetary bands like the

Rolling Stones and the Beatles for the most part let the politics and narrative of the day roll on

without comment or criticism (Mick Jagger stated Its kind of STUPID to think you can

change the world or start a revolution with a song [wrong]. In American Composers during

the Vietnam Era (p. 38) it states;

Many elements that make a song powerful as a tool to influence public opinion.Arnold (1991a) contends that Music in general can certainly appeal to the emotions andexpress the general atmosphere of anger, anxiety and fear (p. 26). During the VietnamWar era, the power of song was stronger than ever. As Gleason (1969) wrote at the sametime, As I see it, the situation is plain, if you want to reach young people in this country(and revolutions are made by the young; the old make counter-revolution) then write asong, dont buy an ad or issue a statement [their minds and hearts are not there] (p.162). In a broader context, the song has some durable attributes that many would notimmediately consider; a song is immediate, small, easy to remember, makes a point quicklyand strategically, is portable, flexible, replicable in print and from memory, transferrable toother people and other languages and can last for generations. A song never goes out ofprint (Saint-Marie personal communication, July 11, 2008).

While it may not be possible to prove conclusively that protest music influenced

public opinion, the words of authors like Gleason, Saint-Marie, Seeger and many others

who lived through the Vietnam Era attest to the power of the music and the critical role it

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played in American society during the 1960s. An early twentieth century labor organizer

put it this way; A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a

song is learned by heart and repeated over and over (Hill, quoted in Bragg, 1990). The

history and origins of protest songs, ballads and organization via song goes way back in

history;

Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (HarvardUniversity Press) describes how street songs mobilized public opinion in a largely illiteratesociety. Every day, Parisians improvised new words to old tunes, and the songs flewthrough the air with such force that they precipitated a political crisis in 1749. But how didtheir melodies inflect their meaning? After locating the musical annotations of a dozensongs, I asked a cabaret artist, Hlne Delavault, to record them for the electronicsupplement. The reader can therefore study the text of the songs in the book whilelistening to them online. The e-ingredient of an old-fashioned codex makes it possible to

explore a new dimension of the past by capturing its sounds.

The Beatles did a song Revolution, but stated You got the wrong guys if you

want US to aid this effort [paraphrase]. Although John Lennons Give Peace a Chance

rallied demonstrators and culled a response by the U.S. government at the time [Appendix

#7]. Jimi Hendrix represented the paradox between those who were against war [in general]

and those who were against the violence it represented and the purported cause that was

propagandized to the American public;

A key figure on the Rock and Roll end of the antiwar spectrum was Jimi Hendrix (19421970).

Hendrix himself was not an official protestor of the war; in fact, being a former soldier he

sympathized with the anticommunist view.[32] He did, however, protest the violence that took

place in the Vietnam War. With the song Machine Gun, dedicated to those fighting in

Vietnam, this protest of violence is manifest. David Henderson, author ofScuse Me While I

Kiss the Sky, describes the song as scary funk [] his sound over the drone shifts from a

womans scream, to a siren, to a fighter plane diving, all amid Buddy Miles Gatling-gun snare

shots. [] he says evil man make me kill you [] make you kill me although were only

families apart.[33]This song was often accompanied with pleas from Hendrix to bring the

soldiers back home and cease the bloodshed.[34]While Hendrixs views may not have been

analogous to the protestors, his songs became anthems to the antiwar movement. Songs

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such as Star Spangled Banner showed individuals that you can love your country, but hate

the governments actions abroad.[35] Hendrixs anti-violence efforts are summed up in his

words: when the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace.

Thus, Hendrixs personal views did not coincide perfectly with those of the antiwar protestors;

however, his anti-violence outlook was a driving force during the years of the Vietnam War

even after his death (1970) (Cross, 2006 Henderson, 2009)

Bob Dylans Times are a changin and Blowing in the Wind acted as forces of

metaphor for resistance, but often time could not overtly state their aims due to Hoover-esque

counter-actions of sabotage and harassment by a very active FBI and CIA intelligence and counter-

culture initiatives against the type of resistance being formed (Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the

Secret War against American Artists Mitgang, 1991). This Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA) material shows the zeal of our government at the time, to act like a banana republic

dictatorship in spewing the hypocrisy of rule of law out of one side of its mouth, while using

underhanded devices of subterfuge and concealed interrogation and stasi like tactics of German

fascism to address the fears and control of our nations development. Among other things, the

assassination of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and the riots at the

1968 Democratic National convention were elements of the chaos and tumultuousness of that

particular year and time-period. Americans wanted change and were at a boiling point for insisting

on it. The leaders that would suppress or oppress this insurrection were no longer able to control

the public through violence or appeasement of rhetoric. With white people not being the only

voting class and black power rising in more vocal and persuasive ways, often it boiled down to

blacks and young people to make up the margins of victory for the vote. Voting held the leash of

power, but the realization of social unrest and a lack of order made the response by government,

much like the response of people today, about the current fiscal cuts inspired by large financial

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institutions greed and larceny, a boiling point for action. The budget shortfalls across the nation

that affected all state budgets and income in a universal deflationary way now, are analogous to the

actions and impetus of government cause and effect leading to internal turmoil and sparking civic

actions.

Hixson, Walter (2000) The Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Page 23) New York. GarlandPublishing. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011. wrote;

Melvin Small declares the antiwar movement of the United States from 1965-1971 was the mostsignificant movement of its kind in American History. In The Impact of the Anti-war Movementon Lyndon Johnson, Small leaves little doubt that the domestic opposition had a major effect onthe administrations conduct of foreign policy.

Like the abolitionist and suffrage movement of the early 20

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century finding like-mindedobjectives to get a vote in American politics, Black leaders of the time, especially Martin LutherKing saw this as an opportunity to link the violence and brutality of American policies towardsblacks and people of color to the violence being perpetrated in Vietnam (Hixson, p. xiv).By aligning a narrower objective of racial rights and the behavior of white Americas behavior tothe assault on innocent Vietnamese citizens, the ability to criticize and link the two on a world-wide basis acted as a cohesive illustration of U.S. policy and brutality.Harrison argues that this really hurt the civil rights movement, but the strategic value of aligninglarger amounts of young whites to resist the action of being drafted and the strong potential for theloss of life, limb or mental liberty aroused the unity of larger societal forces that garnered themedias attention and brought the fight into the streets as protest marches.

The Presidents private army of CIA operatives acting at home and abroad were motivated byfunding issues and concerns [to keep their jobs] to discredit antiwar leaders and to go along withthe Johnson administration.

The known saying of All Politics Are Local came to bear as authors Garner, Segura andWilkening employed quantitative methods and opinion surveys that showed that individualperceptions of war showing casualties drove individual perception into a wider berth audience ofinfluence, and the impact of that opinion of war more significant than earlier recognized (Hixson p.xv). The juxtaposition of the Pentagon propaganda machine selling the war was offset by antiwaractivist launched by advertising campaigns to unsell the War, thus uniting students and MadisonAvenue professional to aid in the antiwar sentiment growing at that time. The release of thePentagon Papers showing the U.S.s secret involvement across four presidential

administrations fostered a distrust for the rhetoric that had been insincerely given and began

the long road of distrust between words and actions that presidents had walked between

easily as questionable as a result of this disclosure of secret tyranny. Critics labeled theseactions the imperial presidency in the actions of the presidency thwarting the Congress and theU.S. public.

In an effort to protect its congressional mandate to declare war, congress passed the 1973War Powers Act, calling on the president then to obtain congressional approval within 90 days ofcommitting U.S. troops to a conflict. This reactionary, but ineffective deterrent to waging war and

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declaring even vague and ambiguous wars on terror left too much power in too few hands. Thelegislation did not resolve the issue, as a series of legal challenges supported by a corruptSupreme Court upheld challenges that extended up to the current day. Hence the wrenchingVietnam experience would continue to shape the contours of debate on military affairs, executive-

legislative relations and public opinion as a precedent setting distrust of government and the

abuse of power for years to come (Hixson p. xvi)

The employed and haves once again walked away wounded of their excess assets, but

the asset-less had none to spare and were crippled. It was hard to ascertain fact from fiction in this

unstable era of dis-content, the culture had been turning away from government control, the actions

of an unjust war that required no authorization or permission by the American Public to support

such a war, since many of the statistics were mis-represented, dis-information campaigns were

disguised by presidential administrations to allow public sentiment to stew. The on-going abuses of

power to disguise and distort the reporting on the true casualties and loss of life to those who were

most affected created a back-lash of public outcry. Janis Joplins CRY CRY BABY became an

anthem of the mothers with military decorations of heroic medals and gold stars who wept for the

loss of their sons and the poor neighborhoods that had opportunity shoveled to them to deal with

the unemployment and poverty issues of America in disposing of its less that superior races with

the of consent of Anglo power mongers. This quasi-planned genocide of non-Anglo based

citizenry understood the conditions and responded in kind.

When the Animals Weve got to get out of this Place became the anthem to withdrawal

from Vietnam, the culmination of public sentiment, the later Watergate fiasco and over 500,000

active military men rebelling in numerous unreported ways (Sir, NO sir! Documentary)[3]

began to snowball into the movement that was the failure of the government to control, isolate

and make men commit brutal acts of barbarism. That sky warfare and the ability to use drones

and un-manned piloted vehicles (that we use today) to detach the man from the impact of the

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mission became the new superlative method of destruction. The forces of rock and roll and folk

music converged to create a sense of solidarity in guiding the anti-war movement, acting as

iconic figures of popular culture and to keep the movement and inspiration of resistance in tact

for the generation that was to be recruited that followed (Arnold, 2011).

It did not take a huge leap to go from protest songs to the blues. The war situation

infuriated many of those who were made to go, but held out hope to those who were there

instigating from within and creating chaos, pandemonium and rebellion. This unrighteous war

gave them many generational tools and abilities they needed to not just complain and sing the

blues, but to empower life on both ends of the spectrum. The blues became to soldiers what

spirituals had to field-hand slaves of the pre-civil war era; hope, determination and a voice to

see that oppression and empowerment went hand-in-hand. The fragging elements of giving

weapons to the very men you were forcing to go to die made for a precarious situation. The

blues were sung among service men like a dirge before death. There was no race, culture or

origin to the blues of the service men sent into the bush. They knew they were as much the

enemy to the other side as they were (whoever the label of the day THE Viet Cong or the

VC; CHARLIE). Most of the people and villagers knew one thing: If they encountered U.S.

or Vietnamese forces, regardless of circumstance, they were going to die. The relentless

saughter of women and children, old people and the Mi Lai massacres

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre) spread the rumor to all of Vietnams

inhabitants: fight for your lives or be tortured or killed by either or BOTH sides for not

fighting or siding with them. Since everyone was used in this guerilla warfare, even the

smallest child was used to offer shoe shining services (with a grenade in the shoe shine box to

blow off the limb of a soldier), no one or no living thing could be trusted alive. This was a no-

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win situation for the citizens caught in the middle, so they just fought both sides with all of their

effort and the available tools at their disposal, both sides killing and maiming mindlessly in the

Fog of War (See Appendix #8). There were no clear ethics or morals, just pure survival

tactics of guerrilla warfare and slaughter. One side had napalm, Agent Orange as chemical

warfare and big bombs (The U.S.), the other side had a presence around the clock through the

tunnels and underground trafficking setup over a thousand years of continuous battle. This was

the perfect formula for genocide or annihilation; no one was getting out alive.

Summary

We have let the world go onto too long without intervention. Our ideology in politics either

takes us too far in the sensibility of religious crusades and protectionist fascist fear or too little

by keeping from getting dirty in the political process of local/state-wide/national and global

politics of give and take. President Obama acts as a figure head to our future, in leaderships

style, decision and exertion of power locally and abroad. His exercising of power locally,

nationally and internationally is of much interest to everyone except for perhaps the protected

bubble of The American Dream and the mythology of anesthetization that it produces.

Whatever form of involvement that we partake in, we need to understand and value the

propagation of values that are universal to all of us as a free people of this country we call the

United States of America.

If we are so distracted by our toil, our desire for riches as the only expression of freedom

being greed and economic gain, than our lost fight has no future legs. BUT, if we see ourselves

aright, enslaved by our own ignorance of susceptibility to business leaders and political leaders

that feed us a vision of what they want us to have [debt for economic power via a large economy

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of much wasted spending] so we can be distracted and content, then the very liberties we have

embraced and fought for are being lost daily and will continue to erode. Do we need to feel the

war protest songs and the harshness of the whip on our own backs, or are we lazily willing to

let this atrocity of irresponsibility pass to the future generations of our country to wait our their

insurrection of this insurmountable un-sustainability?

This musical journey was a historical lesson of lessons not learned. We are still

assimilating the violations of the past in post-colonial and post-modern discourses while being

slowly boiled like a frog. The lessons of the past leave us impotent to make the necessary

changes towards the future. Knowledge gave us nothing but education, civilization comes from

acting. As we center our gaze on the activities of the East and their actions of attaining a new

form of freedom, we should remember that we are far from what we envisioned as free from

the financial and economic forces that have shaped where we are at today. With any luck and a

bit of involvement, we can continue to rebuild the path to sustain a form of economic freedom

and to cease being held in cycles of war and violence for the retention of resources and the

ability to live as what we have considered free lives.

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Bibliography

Will Kaufman. Woody Guthrie: American Radical. University of Illinois Press, 2011. (Biographical study

that stresses his political activism and influence.)

Ian Peddie, ed. The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest. Ashgate Publishing, 2006

I'VE GOT TO KNOWBy Woody Guthrie

Depression Era Song

chorus

I've got to know, yes, I've got to know, friendHungry lips ask me wherever I goComrades and friends all a-falling around meI've got to know, yes, I've got to know

1. Why do your war boats ride on my waters?Why do your death bombs fall from my skies?Tell me why did you burn my farm and my town down?

I've got to know , friend, I've got to know!

2. What makes your boats haul death to my people?Nitro block busters, big cannons and guns?Why doesn't your ship bring food and some clothing?I've sure got to know, folks, I've sure got to know!

3. Why can't my two hands get a good pay job?I can steel plow and plant, I can still sow!Why did your law book chase me off my good land?I'd sure like to know, friend, I've just got to know!

4. What good work did you do, I'd like to ask you,To give you my money right out of my hands?I built your big house here to hide from my people;Why do you crave to hide so, I'd love to know!

5. You keep me in jail and you lock me in prisonYour hospital's jammed and your crazy house full;

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What made your cop kill my trade union worker?You have to talk plain, 'cause I sure have to know.

6. Why can't I get work and cash a big paycheck?Why can't I buy things in your place and your store?

Why close my plant down and starve all my buddies?I'm asking you sir, 'cause I've sure got to know!

(c) 1963, Ludlow Music, words and music by Woody Guthrie(from The Nearly Complete Collection of Woody Guthrie Folk Songs, 1963, p 167-168)

Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Harvard University

Press).

It describes how street songs mobilized public opinion in a largely illiterate society. Every day, Parisians improvised

new words to old tunes, and the songs flew through the air with such force that they precipitated a political crisis in

1749. But how did their melodies inflect their meaning? After locating the musical annotations of a dozen songs, I

asked a cabaret artist, Hlne Delavault, to record them for the electronic supplement. The reader can therefore

study the text of the songs in the book while listening to them online. The e-ingredient of an old-fashioned codex

makes it possible to explore a new dimension of the past by capturing its sounds.

Vietnam Protest Music

Arnold, Ben. War Music and the American Composer during the Vietnam Era. The MusicalQuarterly 75.3 (1991): 317. JSTOR. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.

Buzzanco, Robert Vietnam and the transformation of American Life Blackwell Publishers, 1999.ISBN 1577180933 hbk 1577180941 pbk. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.

Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: a Biography of Jimi Hendrix. New York: Hyperion,

2006. 248. Print.

DeBenedetti, Charles The Significance of Citizen Peace Activism: America, 1961-1975,

DeBenedetti analyzes the origins, composition and legacies of the movement. He finds the antiwar

activists helped legitimize dissent; encouraged drives for liberation at home especially among

women and African-Americans as well as abroad; and reignited a stronger sense of national

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responsibility towards universal codes of behavior, which, many charged, the United States

violated with its destructive militarism in Southeast Asia.

Henderson, David. 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child. New York,

NY: Atria, 2009. 339. Print.

Harrison, Benjamin, T. (2003) Roots of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, Books.google.comWeb. 31 March. 2011.

In Roots of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, Benjamin T. Harrison reminds us of the need tointerpret the Vietnam antiwar movement within the broad sweeping events of the time in Americanhistory, rather than narrowly as a response confined to events in Southeast Asia. A series ofdramatic changes in American demography and culture was the underlying force of the movement,which exploded into public view with the U.S. escalation of the Indochina [Vietnam] war.

Hixson, Walter (2000) The Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Page 23) New York. GarlandPublishing. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.

James, David. The Vietnam War and American Music. Social Text 23 (1989); 132. JSTOR.Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.

Meyer, David. S. 2007. The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America. New York.Oxford University Press. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.A historical look at social protests, their development, their origins and the significance theyplayed inn shaping our countries history.

Mitgang, Herbert (1991). Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against AmericanArtists Random House Value Publishing. Books.google.com Web. 31 March. 2011.

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Robbins, Mary Susannah Against the Vietnam war: writings by activists

Ask the relevant questions Was it a futile, ineffective gesture, or did it prevent a U.S. militaryvictory? Was the outburst of a vocal minority, or did it express the deepest convictions of amajority of Americans? Was it mainly an activity of affluent youths on college campuses, or did it

appear in its most militant forms among the poor and working class people in urban slums andwithin the army itself? Was the protest tantamount to treason, or did it represent the noblesttraditions of American history? Did it divert from or reinforce the movement of black and othernon-white people for equality? Did the revitalization of the movement for womens equality re-emerge as a parallel discourse and concern to civil rights, womens rights and civil liberties thatwent along with many of these issues?

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Scheurer, Timothy E. American Popular Music: The Age of Rock (pg. 181). Books.google.comWeb. 31 March. 2011.

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Film or video recording: [in order of appearance in presentation]

Why We Fight. Eugene Jerecki. 2011. DVD/Live Streaming Netflix. Sony Pictures, 2005.www.whywefight.com

Sir, No Sir! David Zeigler. 2011. DVD/Live Streaming Netflix. Displaced Film. 2009.

The Fog of War. Errol Morris. 2011. DVD/Live Streaming Netflix. Sony Picture Classics. 2003.

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Edwin Starr. WarWhat is it Good For. War and Peace. Motown. 1968.CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

(CCR) Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fortunate Son Willy and the Poor Boys. FantasyRecords. 1969. CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band. Give Peace a Chance Remember Love. Apple Records. 1969.CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

Bob Dylan. Times they are a Changin Free Wheeling. Columbia Records. 1964.CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

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Garnet Mims/Janis Joplin. Cry Baby Pearl. 1963. CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

The Animals. Weve got to Get Out of this Place. Bring it on Home to Me. 1965.CD/Cassette/Vinyl/MP3.

"We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place",[1] is a rock song

written byBarry MannandCynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single byThe Animals. It has become an

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iconic song of its type and was immensely popular amongUnited States Armed Forces during theVietnam

War.

In 2004 it was ranked number 233 onRolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Timelist; it is also in The

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNEiZhpinY

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"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written byBob Dylan and released on his albumThe Freewheelin' Bob Dylanin 1963. Although it has been described as

a protest song, it poses a series of questions about peace, war and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been

described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind" .[2]

In 1999, the song was inducted into theGrammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, it was ranked #14 onRolling Stonemagazine'slist of the "500 Greatest Songs of

All Time".

(Dylan)How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a manHow many seas must the white dove sail

Before she can sleep in the sand

chorusThe answer, my friend, is blowing in the windThe answer is blowing in the wind

Yes, and how many times must a man look upBefore he can see the skyYes, and how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cry

chorusThe answer, my friend, is blowing in the windThe answer is blowing in the wind

Well, how many years can a mountain existBefore it is washed to the seaAnd how many years can some people existBefore they're allowed to be free

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The Times They Are a-Changin'

The Times They Are a-Changin'is singer-songwriterBob Dylan's thirdstudio album, released in January 1964 byColumbia Records.

Produced byTom Wilson, it is thesinger-songwriter's first collection to feature only original compositions. The album consists mostly of stark, sparsely-

arranged story songs concerning issues such as racism,poverty, andsocial change.The title trackis one of Dylan's most famous; many felt that it

captured the spirit of social and political upheaval that characterized the 1960s.

Some critics and fans were not quite as taken with the album as a whole, relative to his previous

work, for its lack of humor or musical diversity. Still,The Times They Are a-Changin'entered the

United States chart at twenty, eventually going gold, and belatedly reaching four in theUnited

Kingdomin 1965.

Bob Dylan. Times they are a Changin.

Come gather 'round peopleWherever you roam

And admit that the watersAround you have grownAnd accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come again

And don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'.For the loser nowWill be later to win


Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the call

Don't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hall

For he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'.

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Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticize

What you can't understandYour sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road isRapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your hand


The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fast

As the present nowWill later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one nowWill later be last


John Lennon, Give Peace A Chance. Give Peace a Chance

Appendix #1

1. We Shall Remain [pbs.org/Netflix] Tactics of Shock & Awe demonstrated when theEuropeans burned down a whole village of native-American men, women and children.The Native Americans were dumb-struck by this form of barbarianism and began workingon getting rid of Europeans on the east coast as a result. A non-white exclusiveinvestigation into history that is not told exclusively by a white, European Male.

2. The Movie The Patriot also delves into the use of this technique used on both sides todevastate the will of the enemy by cutting of ears, fingers and heads to desecrate the humanbody and form to create disgust, horror and shock & awe to opponents. The Britishused these techniques on the rebelling colonies and the patriots defending their new

country retaliated in kind. Like the Hatfields and McCoy feuds, these responses arecarved and etched in the history of many battles and many countrys continued ill willtoday. Hence the heinous acts of [genocidal] history are erased by the victors to subduetheir enemies and go forward with forms of force, coercment and oppression in moredisguised forms.

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1 Doctrine of rapid dominance

o 1.1 Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure

2 Historica l applications

3 Iraq War

o 3.1 Buildup

o 3.2 Conflicting pre-war assessments

o 3.3 Campaign

o 3.4 Conflicting post-war assessments

o 3.5 Criticism of execution

o 3.6 Casualties

4 Eelam War IV

o 4.1 Strategy

o 4.2 Strategy Backfire

o 4.3 Partial Success

5 Popular culture

6 See also

7 Notes

8 Further reading

9 External links

Appendix #3

1970 Census Bureau demographic statistics

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+census+demographics&hl=en&ei=oyKbTZXnAZGisQPSz_SLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct

=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Appendix #5

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War...What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!

20th Century Masters: The Best of Edwin Starr (Millennium Collection) by Edwin

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One of the most popular and blatant anti-war protest songs ever recorded. It was firstrecorded in 1969 by Edwin Starr and then again in 1986 by Bruce Springsteen. That song,

so powerful and relevant to the Vietnam War, is also perfectly suited to the situation inwhich America finds itself today in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wouldn't it be just great if someone once again recorded this powerful protest song? It just

might jump-start the anti-war movement and wake up the American people to the horrorsof war. And here are the lyrics of that most powerful message conveyed to the Americanpeople during a very dark period in our history:

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Absolutely nothingWar


War is something that I despiseFor it means destruction of innocent lives

For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyesWhen their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War


Say it againWar

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing


War

Friend only to the undertakerWar is the enemy of all mankind

The thought of war blows my mindHanded down from generation to generation

Induction destructionWho wants to die

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothingSay it againWar


War has shattered many young men's dreams

Made them disabled bitter and mean, Life is too precious to be fighting warseach day

War can't give life it can only take it away

WarIt's nothing but a heartbreakerWar

Friend only to the undertakerPeace love and understanding

There must be some place for these things todayThey say we must fight to keep our freedom

But Lord there's gotta be a better wayThat's better than

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War


Absolutely nothingSay it again


Absolutely nothing

That anti-war protest song packed so much power about the evils of war that it proved to be

a major motivating factor in eventually bringing the Vietnam War to an end. Whether it's

another protest song or some other anti-war motivating strategy, we need millions moreAmericans to protest the war in Afghanistan demand that it be brought to an end.

Recent developments and reports coming out of Afghanistan strongly indicate that the war

is going very badly as the Taliban is growing in strength and rapidly gaining the advantage.Based on that fact and other developing evidence, more and more writers, the national

media and politicians (even some prominent GOP leaders) are coming to the starkrealization that America cannot continue to waste its monetary and human resources on a

totally futile, misguided war. The signs are beginning to point in the right direction.

So, in conclusion, War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

Michael Payne

Michael Payne is an independent progressive who writes articles about domestic social andpolitical matters as well as American foreign policy. He is a U.S. Army veteran. His major

goal is to convince Americans that our perpetual wars must end (more...)

Appendix #6

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Fortunate Son

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,Ooo, theyre red, white and blue.And when the band plays hail to the chief,Ooo, they point the cannon at you, yall!

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no senators son, Son.It aint me, it aint me; I ain;t no fortunate one. No.

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,Lord, dont they help themselves, yall!But when the taxman comes to the door,Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale.

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no millionaires son. No, no.It aint me, it aint me; I aint no fortunate one. No.

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[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/fortunate-son-lyrics-ccr.html ]

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,Ooo, they send you down to war, yall.And when you ask them, how much should we giveOoo, they only answer more! More! More! Yall.

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no military son, Son.It aint me, it aint me; I aint no fortunate one, one.

It aint me, it aint me, I aint no fortunate one. No, no, no.It aint me, it aint me, I aint no fortunate son. No, no, no.

Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Son_(song)

The song was inspired by David Eisenhower, the grandson of PresidentDwight David Eisenhowerwho marriedJulie Nixon, the daughter of

PresidentRichard Nixon, in 1968.[3]John FogertytoldRolling Stone: "Julie Nixon was hanging around with David Eisenhower, and you just had the feeling

that none of these people were going to be involved with the war. In 1969, the majority of the country thought morale was great among the troops, and like

eighty percent of them were in favor of the war. But to some of us who were watching closely, we just knew we were headed for trouble." [4]

This song was popular during theVietnam Warand is included in several Vietnam films and video games. The song symbolizes the thoughts of a man

who is beingdrafted. Thisspoke out against the war in Vietnam. It is sung from the perspective of one of these men (who is not the son of aSenator,

millionaire, or military leader, thus not a "fortunate son"), who ends up fighting in the Vietnam War.

Fogerty performed the song in front of PresidentBill Clinton, and was broadcast on US TV, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorialduring the "America's

Millennium" show on December 31, 1999.

Rolling Stoneranked the song #99 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

On Fogerty's 2007 album Revival, the song "I Can't Take It No More", which speaks out against theIraq War, implicitly links the Iraq and Vietnam wars by

referring toGeorge W. Bushas a fortunate son.

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John Lennon Give Peace a Chance

Give Peace a Chance

"Give Peace a Chance" is a song written by John Lennon, originally under the monikerLennon/McCartney,

released as a singlein 1969 by thePlastic Ono Band onApple Records, catalogue Apple 13 in theUK, Apple

1809 in the US. It is the first solo single issued by Lennon, and became an anthemof the American anti-war

movementduring the 1970s. It peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on theBritish singles chart.

Appendix #7 In QueueRate 5 starsRate 4 starsRate 3 starsRate 2 starsRate 1 star

The U.S. vs. John Lennon(2006)PG-13

David Leaf's provocative documentary -- produced in collaboration with Yoko Ono -- examines John Lennon's growing involvement in

antiwar efforts from 1966 to 1976 and the U.S. government's attempts to silence him. The film, which picks up Lennon's story as he

begins to shed his Beatles identity and adopt the role of a peace activist, features interviews with Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite,

Mario Cuomo and Angela Davis, among others.

Genre:

Political Documentaries,Biographical Documentaries

Format:

DVD

Appendix [Netflix.com]

Vietnam: A Television History(2004) NR

Fascinating and heart-wrenching in its attention to detail, this in-depth documentary, which first aired on public television in 1983,

unfolds in all its painful glory the American military bte noire that is Vietnam. The show chronicles the country's failed efforts to install

an anti-Communist government, a losing battle almost from the moment it started as soldiers grappled with unfamiliar terrain, guerrilla

tactics, murky politics and more.

Genre:

Military Documentaries,Political Documentaries,TV DocumentariesFormat:

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The Fog of WarEleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara(2003) PG-13

This Oscar-winning documentary traces former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's

career from government to the World Bank; but his work duringthe Vietnam War--

examined through archival footage and interviews -- is thereal highlight. Having worked forboth presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, McNamara played a key role in

shaping both administrations' approaches to the conflict.

Genre:

Biographical Documentaries,Military Documentaries, Political Documentaries

This movie is:

Cerebral,Controversial

Format:

DVD

The Fog of WarFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected fromThe fog of war)

This article is about the documentary film. For the military phrase, see Fog of war.

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S.

McNamara

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Directed by Errol Morris

Produced by Errol Morris

Michael Williams

Julie Ahlberg

Starring Robert McNamara

Music by Philip Glass

Cinematography Robert Chappell(interviews)

Peter Donahue

Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics

Release date(s) May 21, 2003 (Cannes)

December 9, 2003

Running time 95 minutes

Country United States

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Language English

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film

about the life and times of formerU.S. Secretary of DefenseRobert S. McNamara as well as illustrating his

observations of the nature of modern warfare. The film was directed by Errol Morrisand the original score is

by Philip Glass.

The title is a reference to the military phrasefog of war, a concept of battlefield uncertainty during the fighting. It

won theAcademy Award forBest Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award for Best

Documentary Feature.[1] It was screened out of competition at the2003 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a military

documentary based on interviews with former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara. Produced

by Errol Morris and released in December,2003. The film includes an original score by Philip

Glass. It won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for 2003. (Wikipedia, 2006)

The film consists of interviews with formerUnited States Secretary of DefenseRobert

McNamara, detailing his life and the difficult decisions that he made during his career. The term

"fog of war" refers to the cloud of uncertainty that descends over a battlefield once fighting begins.

(Wikipedia, 2006)

The film depicts the life ofRobert McNamara,United States Secretary of Defense from

1961 to1968, through the use ofar

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