Eve Of Destruction, song inspired by this thread ...

it was a time when some of the younger generation saw through the lies of the profiteers.

I do not want to step on your toes, if so let me know, just think it is good conversation/reminder of where we are now.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221287012

An Unanswered Question Today

"“Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, ' the first President to lose a war.' And we are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
John Kerry, statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1971

Those of my generation remember the news reports on John Kerry's haunting questions, at a time when it was obvious that the Vietnam war was a mistake. When a criminal in the White House would rather send American youth to kill or be killed than admit defeat. I keep thinking about it as I watch media reports on the increasing violence in the Middle East.'



Eve of Destruction ...

https://genius.com/Barry-mcguire-eve-of-destruction-lyrics

Written by P.F. Sloan at age 19, when this was released in 1965, the United States had been through nuclear war scares including the Cuban Missile Crisis and had suffered the shocking assassination of President Kennedy and was seeing a continued escalation of the War in Vietnam.

Barry McGuire was part of the folk-rock scene in Southern California in the ‘60s. In the summer of 1965, “Eve of Destruction“ topped the charts in the US & Norway, reached #3 in The Netherlands & UK and was a top 20 hit in Germany & Belgium. It is his only US top 40 hit, earning him the label of one-hit wonder.


Eve Of Destruction