For Peace (The Vietnam War)

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Band: Unto the Wolves
Song: For Peace (The Vietnam War)
Album: Chapter IV: Covered in Ash
Video Directed by: marchamill / Gage Sifuentes
Copyright 2023
www.patreon.com/untothewolves

From 1954–75, a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. At the heart of the conflict was the desire of North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. U.S. military advisers, present in small numbers throughout the 1950s, were introduced on a large scale beginning in 1961, and active combat units were introduced in 1965. By 1969 more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were stationed in Vietnam.

On 4 April 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his seminal speech at Riverside Church condemning the Vietnam War. Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice,” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent means. In early 1968, another speech was given that truly called into question the motives behind the war. His Assassination took place shortly thereafter.

A quote, which served as a strong motivation and inspiration for the lyrics, is as follows;

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., "Conscience and the Vietnam War," The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968

DISCLAIMER: Not all the scenes in this video are from the Vietnam war. However, war is and has always been horrific, no matter when it happened.
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