The Unknown Soldier: A Song Of The Vietnam War

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I decided to choose these songs because of what they represent, they portray the fact that even in the hardest times ( which is the time where a war is happening and lives are being lost) people still had enough hope that the war would end and peace would be accomplished or gained. For example, the song "The Unknown Soldier" This song represents the Vietnam War. This song was written to show how the conflict was being portrayed in the media at the time. As a matter of fact, the lines “Breakfast where the news is read/ Television children fed/ Unborn living, living dead/ Bullets strike the helmet’s head” portray the way news of the Vietnam war was being exhibited to ordinary people. However, there is another message: that as the rest of America

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