Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
An evening pause: Performed live in 2011. Somehow this seems appropriate at the moment.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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as well—
“Eve of Destruction”
Kubical Xphere 2006
https://youtu.be/pEUiMjj3eKY
6:55
Interesting.
A protest strong from the Vietnam era.
I always that it amusing that the protest songs were mainly written and sung by folks that never set foot in a war zone. There are exceptions, but the majority never did.
The guys that were actually there, however, took the names of popular songs for their own purposes.
http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/eve_of_destruction_13.jpg
Tanks were too heavy for a lot of the roads, and wheeled vehicles moved easier and farther, so gun trucks were built by the men that faced danger in real life, as apposed to the imagined dangers thousands of miles away here.
Don’t forget the rebuttal:
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/spokesmen-dawn-of-correction-1965/
Andi: I suspect you realize this, but my point in posting this was to illustrate the panicky illogic of the 1960s anti-war movement, which is the same panicky illogic that is causing our problems today with the Wuhan flu.
…thousands of miles from there.
Mr Z, I need an editing tool for when I type in my tablet. Stupid virtual keyboards never work right.
Woody Guthrie
All You Fascists Bound To Lose
https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ
1:34