Fortunate Son Analysis

The song “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival is a great song during the Vietnam War era. The meaning of this song is about someone not wanting to go to then war and some of the lines in the song represent that. The line “Some folks are born made to wave the flag they’re red white and blue,” then it goes “it ain’t me, it ain’t me” this is definitely saying he does want to go to war.

Muhammad Ali was one man that didn’t want to go to war, at the peak of the war which was March 9, 1966 he was drafted. The reason he didn’t want to go to the war was the fact he didn’t want to kill poor and hungry people in Vietnam. On April 28, 1967 he once again got drafted to go to Vietnam and fight but he refused to go. With the breaking of the law

During the war “Nearly 60,000 were killed in action, over 150,000 wounded, and 1,600 were missing. The highest number of causalities during the war was 14,095 in the age group of 20 years old.

Cites: http://www.militayfactory.com/vietnam/casualities.asp

The song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” by Pete Seeger is about being in the war and the conditions they fought in. The line “It’ll be a little soggy but just keep slogging” shows that even in the rain and the ashes of fire they had to fight and watch their buddies die one by one. There is another line in the song when the Sergeant wanted to cross the river with all their equipment on and someone tells him no one will be able to swim. The Sergeant tells him that it’ll be find but it wasn’t as the Sergeant starts to cross the river he dies The conditions of the war were brutal. The soldiers had to deal with the hot sun in Vietnam which caused dehydration. Many other soldiers may have died from diseases like Malaria. They didn’t have much food and clothes, most were wet all the time because their clothes wouldn’t dry and they didn’t have back up clothes. Most men carried about 50 pounds of stuff on their back a day which included there gun, explosives, and little