https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar Carmony and Court en-us 2018-04-26 14:26:32 UTC 2025-10-23 10:20:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png ashlynn_carmony https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256520635 This picture was taken of Vietnam of the soldiers, and there struggles and the dead bodies lying all over, which is what the song is about; American soldiers dying in Vietnam.]]> 2018-04-30 14:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256520635 ashlynn_carmony https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256521236 This image represents the part of the song that says "Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, they drop it on the Viet Cong." because during the Vietnam war, they would drop bombs in Vietnam and kill many and leave many with defects.]]> 2018-04-30 14:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256521236 olivia_court https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256524063 2018-04-30 14:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256524063 olivia_court https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256525643 2018-04-30 14:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256525643 ashlynn_carmony https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256525665 This shows that the men are really dying in Vietnam, just like how it is mentioned multiple times in the song.]]> 2018-04-30 14:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256525665 olivia_court https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256526774 The purpose of this section of the lyrics is that to show that the people don't understand why they are part of the war but they are being sent there anyways. This is significant because many people apposed the war and thought and wondered why we were even involved in this war.]]> 2018-04-30 14:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256526774 ashlynn_carmony https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256526958 The Band was a very influential usually using their songs to address an issue. They wrote songs about free love, drug use, anti war, and counterculture. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256526958 olivia_court https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256527070 This part of the song is being sarcastic in a way by telling family s to send their sons off to war to die and the sooner that you do the sooner they will die because they wont come back. This is significant because many Americans felt like our boys were just being sent to the slaughter for no reason.]]> 2018-04-30 14:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256527070 ashlynn_carmony https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256540413 This part of song is about how Americans didn't know why they were fighting. This is significant because the government didn't really tell the people of America what was really happening in or with Vietnam but they just had to fight for it.]]> 2018-04-30 14:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256540413 olivia_court https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256546057 This song addresses a social problem during the Vietnam War because the song talks about men being sent out into a war that they are unsure why they are fighting in, and dying. The song includes lyrics like "what are we fighting for?Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn" and "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box" that show the real struggles of the war and Vietnam and the soldiers that had to fight in that war, which had an impact on the society and the men in the war and there families.]]> 2018-04-30 14:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlynn_carmony/d7lkixhqydar/wish/256546057