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The 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron carried out the operation using the slogan "make mud, not war." [6] Starting on 20 March 1967, and continuing through every rainy season (March to November) in Southeast Asia until 1972, operational cloud seeding missions were flown.
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
The song was considered symbolic of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's policy of escalation, then widely seen as pushing the United States deeper into the increasingly unpopular war. Like the Captain's demise, Johnson was eventually forced to abandon plans for re-election due to the war in 1968.
Jon Bon Jovi said the dream is alive and played two songs at the Saturday, Nov. 2 Kamala Harris campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Sayreville native and The War and Treaty, aka ...
"Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is an African-American spiritual.Its roots date back to before the American Civil War, [1] though it was first published in 1918 in Plantation Melodies: A Collection of Modern, Popular and Old-time Negro-Songs of the Southland, Chicago, the Rodeheaver Company. [2]
That all changed one rainsoaked day, in sodden terrain, when the 59-year-old discovered he could use mud too, after trying to wash it off his hands and boots. Bazylewicz has served in the eastern ...
"Life During Wartime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album Fear of Music. [2] It entered the US Billboard Pop Singles Chart on November 3, 1979, and peaked at number 80, spending a total of five weeks on the chart. [3]
As the song ends, the young man tells the sergeant that he'll be the first to volunteer for "a war without blood or gore". [2] [5] "Draft Dodger Rag" was the first prominent satirical song about draft evasion in the Vietnam War. [6] One writer says its humor can be appreciated on its own level, without respect to the political message of the ...