I'm writing a paper on vietnam war protest songs, and I think a military perspective would be interesting.
Did you listen to these songs? Do you think they affected the war effort?
2007-03-11 10:17:41 · 9 answers · asked by longnosedquoll 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
ENOUGH!
When I say "on here", I mean on yahoo answers RIGHT NOW. Was anyone who is using yahoo answers at this moment in the military during the Vietnam war?
2007-03-11 13:24:06 · update #1
SEA 1969-70, 72-73, 73-74 (quiet time). In my fighter squadrons we regularly had ad hoc music combos play and sing at our parties or mostly just for the fun of it. We all enjoyed the songs, protest or not, and then went out the next day and killed as many of the enemy as we could. It was my job. I was in the business of killing. Business was good.
2007-03-11 11:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by RANDLE W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I served in the Navy in the early 1970's as the war was winding down. The protest movement did nothing but embolden the enemy; weaken the US populations nerve to fight and keep people free; and ultimately created decades of hatred for the military which still exists today among many of the baby boom generation. Yes, it affected the war effort.... negatively. If everyone would have rallied the war would have been quick and decicive; as the first Gulf War was.
2007-03-11 10:37:52 · answer #2 · answered by Homeless in Phoenix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a vietnam veteran with 39 months in combat= If the American people today had protested against the vietnam war, I would be the first to concurr. But what is being done today is only brought on by the Iraq's that live here. If we leave Iraq and the 3 missing MOBILE LAUNCHERS launch the missles of poison gas at us than you can sing your songs to our deaths no-thanks to you.
2007-03-11 10:39:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure I listend to them...all the Liberal AM radio stations played them I didn't buy into them, although the weak minded Cowardly Hippie Antis did.
The best song was "Paint it Black" used by Helo gunners on the PA sytem, to induce fear into the enemy. Maybe it wasn't realy a protest song., but Charlie feard it.
I wanna die rag, by Country Joe & the Fish, was one true Protest song.
2007-03-11 10:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. This site didn't exist yet during the Vietnam war.
("Fortunate Son" is my favorite anti-war song.)
2007-03-11 10:26:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I still listen to the songs, they are & were really great. I don't think that these songs alone changed any soldiers morale (great lyrics, great tunes, excellent smoke).
What did affect us was the traitor Hanoi Jane Fonda.
2007-03-11 10:44:19 · answer #6 · answered by Nighthawk 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes...1966-1967, in country.
We were there to do a job, but our POLITICAL INBREDS in D.C. hindered that job. That is what affected the effort.
2007-03-11 14:48:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lol there wasnt personal computers in the 60-s so im pretty sure no 1 was on "Yahoo"
2007-03-11 12:46:22 · answer #8 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I was service during vn with the north vietnamese.
The song I heard mostly progaganda and it psychologically effected me in giving my life to drive out the american imperialism that brought nothing to vn but death, destructions and suffer to the vietnamese people.
2007-03-11 10:28:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋