barry maguire eve of destruction

[LeotheOrangeCat]

I had a professor that was in the riverine force, He said the body counts that were given for VC dead would have been more accurate if VC stood for Vietnamese civillian. Don't know if that is true.

[anOPINIONATEDsob]

Nam tought me one thing of socially redeeming value, Blood is red and dead is forever no matter whose side your on or the color of your skin or the Gods you may or may not believe in. A bullet is the great equalizer!

[up2space]

@anOPINIONATEDsob yeah, and it doesn't need to be. because the new war is civilian casualties without a dead enlisted man. who ever is getting killed, let it not be us doing the murdering.

[MrPinkfloydfan420]

The picture at 0:35. The horrors of war right there. Death hasn't changed at all. There has been so much blood shed on this planet and more is about to be shed.

[Sabatinitennis]

We've had Baez, Dylan et al but for protest songs - this one wins easily - what a legacy.

[Vipnonyarg]

1965 was a great year because I was born :)) The Year of the snake.

[MrRoland36]

Well, as all soldiers are trained to, you all do what you are trained to do and so there's only something to be proud of as veterans.....that time was horrible there and so, only comments on the song....there are many better examples of the same number....!!

and to all soldiers: Bless you all !!

[stefchu1977]

To all those that served, my thanks

[scifyjunkie]

my mom was a hippie during the vietnam period, i was born during the tet offensive, my dad served in the army, and i went on to the navy after school, any way for mother's day these two songs are posted on my wall in honor of my mom, and all of the brave men who served in vietnam.

[cymbali]

I loved Nam, wish I could do it again you pussies..Not my comp

[Willredd94]

@cymbali Your profile says you are 31. You werent even alive during Nam you lying bastard. I was opposed to our escalation of the war and the Johnson admin. They were disasterous, but I'm a conservative not a hippie. The Conservative foreign policy is non-intervention just like it is in domestic policy. War has historically been the led by liberals and progressives-Wilson, FDR, JFK, Johnson, Clinton. The lone exception really is Bush who was surrounded by former socialists like Kristol+wolfowitz

[CJDiggs]

@Willredd94 ..McKinley, Bush Sr., Reagan, Lincoln

[Goldfrog12]

war has produced most of the technology we take for granted today, replaceable parts jets, rockets , countless medical advances, it even drove us to split the Atom. It is both our blessing and our curse and it will never go away.

[CHOHAN67]

War, started by few greedy old men, ending with the lives many young men gone

[supercrapnstuff11]

and then you find it totally ironic how we have a nuclear missle called "peacekeeper"

yeah, it keeps vilonce at a "resonable" level so someone doesn't come in and nuke the fuck out it if?

[Carrie581]

No one wants to believe that people have the power, but they still have not learned to control their animal impulses. Monkeys with bombs, that is what we are. If we knew better we would not use them.

[MrClydekewl]

KILL OR BE KILLED! peace? more like PEACE of shit

[SilverPott]

Amazing song, one of my college professors I had at MSU actually owns the original LP track of this song. He brought it into class and played it for us. Needless to say, he was a great teacher.

[Bella1Paige]

I was at a meeting last night and a few vets were there. I learned a lot from them last night. A comment "After I realized that I wasn't actually John Wayne and the people on the other end of the ridge were human, maybe a musician like me I could no longer kill ". I cried that statement changed my life. I was not alive then, although I could feel the pain in these hearts last night, for those they never met, for orders they followed without even being old enough to understand. Thank you

[willobi]

there wont be peace in the world until we stop being arse holes and we grow up as people and act as one race for the common good of humanity.

[203207ab]

so what is this, iraq, afganistan?  what.

[djoro3]

It's amazing after 45 years and were still on the "Eve of Destruction".... Will there ever be peace?

[2ndRCHAret]

@djoro3 There will never be lasting peace. As long as we build wepons of war we will use them. As long as we allow our politicians to involve us in war we will fight and die. Until men and women of good concience finally make a stand and say enough. We will no longer allow our children to be killed in far off lands. We will no longer allow wepons manufacturers to profit from our grief. We can no longer afford to fight limited police actions around the world.

[djoro3]

Its amazing after 45 years we are still on the Eve of destruction......Go figure !!! 

[Heuri1]

@djoro3 Do you know I have...and guess what, the cunts at the top get erections contemplating the end and their chaplains bless their masturbations to The New Zion (Haggee et al)...AMEN!

Ironic really....gentile bankers becoming Jews in order to create their very own holocausts. Shame there'll be no one left to lower their diamond encrusted coffins into their hate filled graves. Ha fucking ha ha ha!

[eddiej09]

Young people.......Take note.......This song is 45 years old........Don't you understand what I'm trying to say..........

[mrstevehartman]

@kes6675orak I think you need to head for Afghanistan, MOUTH !!

[395073]

inb4 shitstorm

[zoidberg96913]

I do agree war is bad...IT is bad..But the thing is we have to thoroughly study it so we know what to do when it comes. It is the road to riches or ruin. Life or death.

[CarlChipSanders]

I love the message of this song GO WAR! Vietnam was right!!! Glad Barry was a strong supporter of it.

[njcoastal]

Did not understand this song in 69 when I came back from Nam but now I wish I can forget those horrible things that went on over there. I was just to young to see all that. I'm 63 now and still cant get the images out of my head. Dont always belive what "they" tell you.

[Gezoes]

@njcoastal Touching comment sir, and don't worry :-) 38 years old here, never seen war, but I know what it does to people. I have met a lot of (different wars) veterans and enjoy their company a lot. I'd be honored to help carry the flame when they also have become absent friends. 

[highvelocity2]

@Gezoes 58 years old. Vietnam veteran and proud of my service. I'm not certain that any war is justified but we did what our country asked of us. Think ill of us if you will but until you've been there, don't judge us.

[Gezoes]

@highvelocity2 Speak ill? Judge you? Where did I do that? Au contraire, but I thought that was obvious.

[paragod666]

@highvelocity2 Twas not ours to ask why but to do and die..... Thank you for your service Sir.

[jonvincent12]

@highvelocity2 Thanks for serving. You have no idea the respect I have for my veterans. The war was bad, I agree, and nobody can pay back the debt they owe the veterans for their service. I respect the veterans for their service and for their courage. And for the things they were told they "didn't do".

[Powerofpeace64]

Let the fat cats fight thieir own wars, they are our true enemies anyway. Our brave soldiers, all over the world, should be home with their families. Not out killing each other, so the fat cats can get even fatter. After all, isn't trying to get peace by war, like using sex as birth control?

Great tune, still as fitting today as then.

[adamAZ8529]

Peace

[navaja33]

"How can you kill women and children?" "It's easy--just don't lead them as much." --Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1989)

[andpride]

My respect to your dad, Daniel T. Joyce. My dad was a soldier and my ass is American too. I wish he hadn't died. So did Barry McGuire. This isn't disrespecting soldiers, it's mourning them.

[andpride]

My respect to your dad, Daniel T. Joyce. My dad was a soldier too. I wish he hadn't died. So did Barry McGuire. This isn't disrespecting soldiers, it's mourning them.

[HeyLanny]

Every man carries between the pages of his own mind the unknown to the world experiences a man faces when trying to survive his own hell when at war. April 1970 to July 1971

This song sums up the dangers of the unchecked hearts of men. Love Barry McQuire as a brother.

[Marinesson2136]

MY DAD G SGT DANIEL T JOYCE WAS KILLED IN HIS 3RD YOUR VIETNAM ALL YOU PROTESTERS CAN KISS MY AMERICAN ASS THANK YOU VETERANS MY DAD IS PROUD OF YOU ALL IF HE WHERE HERE HE WOULD SAY GOOD JOB BOYS

[oddball2036]

still valid today,change red china to iran

[pinkmusiicluva]

Barry McGuire replied to an e-mail from me and my friend too :)

[th3sp0rk]

Rest in peace, all of the U.S. , ARVN and Vietcong/NVA soldiers who fought and died in Vietnam. You have not been forgotten.

[colognefootballnews]

Old-School-Hit aus den 60er Jahren. Wurde damals (1965) in den USA auf den Index gesetzt und wurde doch noch dort Nr. 1 in den hiesigen Charts. Erfolgreichster Protestsong aller Zeiten.

[ixby46]

thank you Jesus Barry is now a christian and the words are more true now than they were when he first sung this, it does not make any difference wether you believe it or not it is true.

[brandsourceman]

Only the dead have seen the end of war...Plato

This song is TIMELESS

[ruggggg]

Is Barry Maguire still living ?

[SaddleCat1]

I was 5 when this came out. I remember playin it over and over on my sister's phono...

[SaddleCat1]

Most of (if not all) of the images on this vid are by Tim Page, a British war photog . that was disabled covering (I believe) another conflict somewhere else in the world (brain injury). Most photos in this presentation come from a book: "Tim Page's Vietnam".

[jerryb19531953]

I'm a lot wiser than back in 1972.This government has the blood of 58,000 men,who thought they were fighting for our Country,when in reality they were shedding thier blood for the elitists from banks and corporations.The gulf of Tonkin never happened.I'll buy a beer for any soldier,sailer,marine,airman,g­uardsmen.Anyone who puts there life on the line to serve our Country.It's the government that's the problem,not our military.The ONLY and ONLY reason is to defend our Country

[odiloglobocnik]

@jerryb19531953 blood of 58 000 what about 2 milion and half vietnamese poeple butchered by usa agresive war.

war is sick

[jerryb19531953]

My number in the draft lottery was 52 and in 1972 I took my physical at Fort hamilton and was waiting to be called.I got a letter saying I was going to be in the Armored Division.I was ready to do my part.Then the next letter I received said I was re-classified to 3-c.Standby.Meaning if the war got worse I would go.Nixon was calling the troops home.When I think how close I was to go I thank God for being born when I was.My heart goes out to all the kids my age who weren't as lucky as Iwas.Jerry

[QwidgyboMan]

We probably are on the eve of destruction. Islamic or Jewish fundamentalists will almost certainly end up annihilating this planet.

[saint4God]

Heavy things to ponder with great music and a unique voice.

[swastikausa]

what happened to Kim Phuc was no justification for torturing the POWs and vice versa.

[Bmialone]

Thank you.

When Bush first floated the idea of invading Iraq, I cried. Friends said, "It might not happen!" I knew it would. Just as leaders savaged boomers in Vietnam, they would savage us again, this time through our children. Again betraying the public trust, they would cynically sacrifice our children in unnecessary war, pitting us against each other to fight over whether we should blindly trust leaders, leaving us once again scarred on all fronts. I was right. It's heartbreaking.

[bentzenko]

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[fletcptd]

the song & video are #1...nam its self was

#10.xgunftr usmc in country 66-67-69

[brandsourceman]

@fletcptd TKS for your service. Glad you made it back to the world.

[beavis4play]

anyone know where these vietnam pictures came from?

[MPETE1976]

@beavis4play Vietnam

[beavis4play]

thanks for the sarcasm, doofus........now, does anyone have an intelligent response? were these pictures from a book? a documentary?

[beavis4play]

great song........great video and good quality pictures.

[lithopoonwit]

From the righteous Abel slain by his brother Cain,till the very last casualty, before the Day of Judgement, Lord Jesus, we will have war.We'd better learn to live with it.I love peace, i didn't know anything else but peace, but i'm prepared for a war to come up some day knocking at my door, waking me up to the harsh reality, of which, right now, i'd prefer not to think. I'd prefer to be in my cosy peaceful world,but i realise others have gone in my place,so that i could live on and stay safe.

[mikisaikano]

me too.

[hagcom]

well said ......young man

[phigura153]

Males who sing are effeminate, for they reveal their

feminine side. This guy is very "butch".

[laflugantabastardo]

Do you mean to say Barry McGuire is the ultimate lesbian man?

[Jared0300]

war solves problems, peace only prolongs them.

[hrwillett]

War will go away only when true personal liberty and freedom is achieved and no one desires to be in charge of another person.

[laflugantabastardo]

You hit the nail on the head. Because there will always be rulers, and there will always be usurpers, there will always be war.

[starbrighter]

Great Responses!

In my opinion, Vietnam was the Climax of humanity. My heart goes out to every one that was a casualty there.

[VieriGiovanni]

The picture of 1:14 is cited by Operation Flashpoint 2,the first picture released by Codemaster of that game.Great,copyright.

[Profound79]

Until war ends all over the world we can not consider ourselves civilized.

[megashegem]

AGREED!...It's to bad it's in our human natures blood to have war... Man has been at war with himself since a caveman threw a bone,stick, or rock at another caveman and there it started.

[Heiko2711]

This song is really really true.

War is totaly superfluously ...

How great would a world be without war .. ?! ...

[roflcoptermoviemaker]

it would be great but think everyone would still have a military to defend them because whats going to happen if we get attacked or every hostile nation fucked us up like bombed us and some other shit who would defend us by the way im not a warmonger

[SirMafia]

lol

gay

[hamm45r]

We're ALWAYS on the eve of destruction, since the moment man was booted out of eden we were on the eve of destruction.

[lostboysandgirls]

This stuff is awesome. I wish people would write and perform this sort of stuff nowadays

[Luchos16]

The songs not even about Vietnam. Its about the cuban missle crisis. It was written by P.F. Sloan after watchin president Kennedy talk about how the U.S. is on the eve of nuclear warfare.

[DSVOP]

Correct, but, it is a truth...thank you for your accurate reflection.

[549022377]

well are'nt we the fucking historian.

[warrior350es]

War, waste of a young man's life.

[kokpit]

@warrior350es more than 70% of victims in Vietnam war were civilians.

[MajKong101]

@warrior350es Even though you have a choice.You don't have to go to war if you don't want to.You fight for what the you signed up for.

[MagicalWheelies]

@warrior350es Maybe sometimes.

[HYPOSTRIPE]

TIS VIDEO IS VERY MOVING

[butchalea]

AWESOME TUNE

[ricowisse]

you are right all people from a later generation cannot imagine what it was like back then and they got a second vietnam(iraq)

[txsugarbear]

This song was written in 1965. I graduated June, by November I had lost 11 of my friends who had just graduated. We were old enough to go to war and die for the USA but we were not allowed to vote in the USA until we were 21. The war seemed senseless and Pres. Johnson was playing games with the lives of innocent kids. Barry McGuire said it like it was. If you didn't live during that time, you have NO idea what the feelings were..I am just glad we survived with our emotions still in tact.

[549022377]

great song with a hell of a lot of meaning, I caught the last year of nam in 1975 and I cant imagine the hell you went through in the sixties, what really pisses me off is how our troops are greated now when they come home compared with the way we were greated, No Comparrison. At least we all made it home. God bless the USA........

[Ineededanaccount0]

I think that those of us who have grown up in the Bush-Clinton-Bush era and those of us like myself who have lost a brother in this war we have now have somewhat of an idea, I think it's just back it those times America hadn't been starting unjust evil wars and it was a total shock to the baby boomer generation

[DSVOP]

I hear you, and know you...Respect

[jimmylin2000]

@txsugarbear that is sad, even though these young men were fighting for their country they were fighting in war that made no sence and i guess it was just to satisfy i man's love for war, hate, vilonce and killing of innocent kids many of whome had just started their lives and graduated from school.

[jimmylin2000]

@txsugarbearThey had no time to experience life, love and really did not have time to even enjoy life. these were their peak years a time to fall in love and just have fun but i guess all they found in their short adult life is blood blood blood. You are right i do not know what it feels like to to live in that time in 1965 or even fight in a war but some how in some distance way i can appriciate that bond you might have had on your friends.

[jimmylin2000]

@txsugarbear barry maguire eve of destruction

[bentzenko]

@txsugarbear oi rah rah rah... grrrrrr...... AHRAH RAH RAH..... AHHHHHHHH BRAAAAHHH GRRRRR BRRRRRRR AHRAHRAHHH....

[beavis4play]

@txsugarbear - good post.......but i don't think johnson wanted to be there either. he inheirited the situation from kennedy and his decisions were based on info from others (primarily bob mcnamara)

i think kennedy and mcnamara are as much to blame as anyone.

by the way - that war was senseless as far as why we were there and how we fought it.

[KiwiSentinel]

@txsugarbear

I can remember seeing the war on tv as a small boy. It would make a huge impact as I grew up, I joined the peace movement and marched to stop nuclear ship visits to my country [New Zealand].

I'm glad you made it able to write what you said.

I'm glad I was too young to go.

peace

Martin

[kellylynneden1977]

@txsugarbear Thanks for your friends that lost their lives to protect us..

[bharo9]

@txsugarbear My father and uncle were both in Vietnam. Much respect.

[MrSilverfox48]

@txsugarbear So many wasted young people but be proud of what you did you did save so many innocent people from hell on earth

[MrSilverfox48]

@txsugarbear So many wasted young people but be proud of what you did you did save so many innocent people from hell on earth.

[hardkoregamer999]

@txsugarbear same things are happening today history always repeats itself.

[sjinouck]

@txsugarbear respect for you, my friend...may God bless you..

[yegdihc]

so sad

[paul51]

Yet "they" do not learn . . .

[luap123311]

The World has not learned its lessons yet as it is still blind, deaf, etc... & on its way to the EVE of Destruction.

[stefchu1977]

I remember I remember.....

[mybarnyourbarn]

Thanks for that one. I am from that generation, and I see that nothing has really changed except in worse, despite our hopes.

[eimearmurphy]

The Eastern World, It is exploding

Vietnam then.

Iraq today.

<3 x

[eimearmurphy]

The Eastern World, It is exploding

Vietnam then.

Iraq today.

<3 x

[jcb180]

great song sadly still true now

[Malygos91]

nice one sssir