The Vietnam War could not compare to any other war the United States had seen

before. The average age of soldiers was 19, and some figures gather that 90 percent were

all under the age of 23. This was also the first war in which the GIs listened to antiwar

and protest songs while fighting in the conflict. In previous wars, the music had always

been supportive, more or less hiding the truth of what was really going on. With Vietnam

it actually told the soldiers and their families what was really happening: murdering

innocent people for a lost or unknown reason. Like may people back home, many GIs

brought their taste of music into the front lines. Rock was the most popular type of music

World War II was different from the Vietnam War in that the forties witnessed a

unified mission of fighting fascism and Nazism. In the latter stages of the Vietnam War,

there was no such unity of purpose. Music has always provided need relief during

mistakenly claimed to know what was right and what was wrong.

Many Asian bands tried to imitate British and American rock groups and perform

special meaning for those Marines at the Khe Sanh, because the government forced them

The music of Vietnam was nothing like anything ever seen before. What was

Jude," "Simon Says," "Gloria," and "Black Is Black." These poor recreations gave the

Tour" by The Beatles, the lines "coming to take you away, dying to take you away," held

actually happening out on the field was what the musicians were actually singing about.

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