Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards

This is an anti-war song written by Jonathan Edwards. Sunshine was written in 1971 during the last years of the Vietnam War as a protest song. The conflict in Vietnam lasted from 1959 to 1975 (with the U.S joining in late 1964) and most of the soldiers who served were between the ages of 18 and 21 (just kids fresh out of high school or college drop outs). Then almost 30 years later another war much like the one fought in Vietnam surged, this time they call it the Iraq War.

UPDATE July 5, 2010:
The story of this video goes: I was making a video that I kind of wanted to coincide with the song and its history. Sunshine was written in 1971, the same year Nixon was president (Hence the Nixon images.) Now at first this video was going to be strictly Vietnam, however a day prior to me finishing the video I come to find out that one of my friends whom I've known since I was a little kid was stop loss and shipped back to Iraq after serving 2 tours. That's when I decided to make the video about both wars.

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[mpeterso1000]

@Drewster58 They also got thousands of lives killed so we could what? Go Into extreme debt. Try explaining your little comment to the moms who got their sons shot and killed so that we could fullfill our extreme need for oil and somehow avenge 9/11. Not to mention those thousands of innocent men, women, and children who were slaughtered, all just farmers trying to survive. But try to explain that to an idiot, oh sorry I mean a Conservative.

[wingman572]

the hippies did more for the vietnam vets than the goverment

[longfootbuddy]

@slownoman i see youre retarded

[slownoman]

@longfootbuddy You win the dumbfuck award. Enjoy your anarchy and shove those extra bucks up your flabby ass. I can smell a Ron Paul pimp a continent away. Septic sucker.

[longfootbuddy]

where do you think the fruits of your labors should go? you all need to realize that to force people to pay income tax is to enslave people.. i know most of you just cant get this simple fact, but you need to realize what your grand democratic games do to your fellow man, and what you have become.. democracy inevitably leads to socialism, and you will continue to lose your rights.. yet in your blind stupor, you think the goverment that enslaves you, keeps you free

[slownoman]

@TheRealXynot bullshit. Typical fascist blather. Germany and Japan started WWII; the isolationist assholes- like you- kept us out until the world was damned near lost. Ike started vietnam. guam? WTF? That was a battle in WWII. I was stationed there. moron. America loves wars. Both parties beat their chests, but it's the chickenshit chickenhawks like The Dick and The Bush that have us in our present shithole. here's a one finger salute from a vietnam vet.

[TheRealXynot]

Just remember- The Democraps got us into WWI, WWII, Korea, Guam, and Vietnam.

As far as Bush taking us into Afgahn and Iraq- The congress was going to say no to us going into Iraq until Hillary Clinton said, " I saw the intel when I was in the white house and can verify it's authenticity" And you blame Republicans? Idiots.

[TheRealXynot]

Just Remember- Dems got us into WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, and Guam. I get so sick of everyone saying that the Reps are the war mongers without looking back a history.

[slownoman]

@Setherlast Back to your sunday tradition of cousin fucking, cracker.

[Setherlast]

@slownoman slownoman Sorry homoman, I don't rely on the "Enquirer" or wiki to get my facts from. About the only thing you got right was the "big government" part and that's what you butt sucking leftist commies keep shooting for with your socialist plans. Lucky for you karma doesn't exist, otherwise you'd be shipped off to france and sodomized with a Canadian flag pole. It's never too late to go back and complete at least your 5th grade of education. Bye bye, hippy :)

[slownoman]

@Setherlast I volunteered. Fuck you. Do you still go to family reunions to find someone to screw? Closet fudgepacker. Fascist means the unholy alliance of big biz, big government, unquestioning patriotism, and frothing fear of "the other". We keep switching our boogy men. Inbred dicklicker. And, you illiterate wanker, exists is not possessive.Work on your GED when you're not dead drunk and humping sheep. Even with your hooved dates, your most frequent sex partner will always be your hand.

[Setherlast]

@slownoman Unfortunately for you, more year's doesn't make more brains, or you might have a point. You're just as stupid as you were when you got drafted even though you tried to dodge it because you're a wussy. You don't know the meaning of the word fascist, like most tree humping liberal's. Complain about the military while making the government bigger. Fascist is a word that you and your people took over like the word "gay" but the true meaning still exist's, dummy. Go hump a tree.