"19 Part One: Boot Camp 19 Part One: Boot Camp is a multi-load computer game created by Cascade Games in . It appeared on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The inspiration for the game came in two parts - the arcade game ""Combat School"" and the Paul Hardcastle song ""19"", which was itself about the Vietnam War. The player controls a soldier through several training events, including an obstacle course, shooting practice and jeep driving. The game is split into four stages: Stage One is an assault course - the player must gain speed by pressing the right directional"
"in the Australasian Performing Right Association's Top 30 Australian Songs of all time. The song is a first-person account of a typical Australian soldier's experience in the Vietnam War, from training in Australia to first hand exposure to military operations and combat, and ultimately his return home disillusioned, psychologically scarred and possibly suffering from the effects of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. Contrary to popular belief, the subject of this song is a volunteer member of the Australian Army, and not a conscript. Australian men did not become eligible for conscription until the age of 21. Redgum's lead vocalist-guitarist, John"
"""Dear Mom and Dad"". Into the 1970s, as the Vietnam War continued, hit ballads of youth and death included B. J. Thomas' ""Billy and Sue"" (1972) and Terry Jacks' No. 1 hit ""Seasons in the Sun"" (1974), their protagonists of indeterminate age, or slightly older than teens. A song that was thought to have referenced the Civil War was Paper Lace's 1974 hit ""Billy Don't Be a Hero,"" made a bigger hit in the U.S. by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. Hard-rock acts recorded vehicular death scenarios such as ""D.O.A."" (Bloodrock, 1971), ""Detroit Rock City"" (Kiss, 1976) and ""Bat Out"
"were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops."" Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the president since World War II, but ended in 1973. As of 2013, the U.S. government is paying Vietnam veterans and their families or survivors more than $22 billion a year in war-related claims. By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. The average age of the U.S. troops killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years. According to Dale Kueter, ""Of those killed"
"War II. Soldiers served a one-year tour of duty. The average age of the U.S. military men who died in Vietnam was 22.8 years old. The one-year tour of duty deprived units of experienced leadership. As one observer put it, ""we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for one year 10 times."" As a result, training programs were shortened. Some NCOs were referred to as ""Shake 'N' Bake"" to highlight their accelerated training. Unlike soldiers in World War II and Korea, there were no secure rear areas in which to get rest and relaxation. One unidentified soldier said"
"of the world. Hardcastle produced different mixes of the song to help maintain interest in it. Although the song did not climb as high in the United States chart, Hardcastle claims ""it outsold everybody else for three weeks solid, it only reached number 15, because back then the chart was based on airplay as well as sales"". The song was held back in the US by some radio stations refusing to play it, feeling that the song took an anti-American stance, something Hardcastle denies, noting he ""had tons of letters from Vietnam vets thanking me for doing something for them""."
"54% of Vietnam war veterans suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Based on 1860 census figures, 8% of all white American males aged 13 to 43 died in the American Civil War, including about 6% in the North and approximately 18% in the South. The war remains the deadliest conflict in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 military personnel. United States military casualties of war since 1775 have totaled over two million. Of the 60 million European military personnel who were mobilized in World War I, 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million"
"February 1989, but he never recovered from his injury. He died there of cardiac arrest on November 5, 1989, four days after his 49th birthday. Sadler was survived by his wife, Lavona, a daughter, Brooke, and two sons, Thor and Baron. Barry Sadler Barry Allen Sadler (November 1, 1940November 5, 1989) was an American soldier, singer/songwriter, and author. Sadler served as a Green Beret medic, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant. He served in the Vietnam War from late December 1964 to late May 1965. Most of his work has a military theme, and he is best known for his"
"Vets""). After writing the song, she came out of retirement and recorded a new album, penning 10 of the 12 songs. ""It's About Time"" (2005) was released under Pandean Records. She toured briefly after recording this album dedicated to our Vietnam Vets, doing mostly benefits for Military Veterans. Paulette Carlson Paulette Tenae Carlson (born October 11, 1952) is a country singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s as the founder and lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. With Highway 101, she charted four No. 1 hit singles, seven Top 10 hits. As a solo artist, she has"
"15 million copies in the U.S., 30 million worldwide, and became one of the best-selling albums of all time with seven singles hitting the Top 10. The title track was a bitter commentary on the treatment of Vietnam veterans, some of whom were Springsteen's friends. The lyrics in the verses were entirely unambiguous when listened to, but the anthemic music and the title of the song made it hard for many, from politicians to the common person, to get the lyrics—except those in the chorus, which could be read many ways. The song made a huge political impact, as he"
"at all; they thought it was anti-soldier, but they've come full circle now and they see it's certainly anti-war but not anti-soldier."" Written in 1971, the coincidence with the Vietnam War has not been missed as it rails against the romanticising of war. As the old man sits on his porch, watching the veterans march past every Anzac Day, he muses, ""The young people ask what are they marching for, and I ask myself the same question"". The song was originally eight verses long but Bogle pared it down to five verses. In 1974 Bogle, entered the National Folk Festival"
"the tour of duty was longer during World War II, soldiers in Vietnam were subjected to hostile fire more frequently: almost every day. Musically, the song was inspired by electro, particularly Afrika Bambaataa, although Hardcastle also ""added a bit of jazz and a nice melody"", and beyond the sampling of the documentary narration, the song incorporated pieces of interviews with soldiers. The song's pivotal hook, the repetitive ""N-n-n-n-nineteen"", was chosen due to the limitations of the early sampling technology used. The E-mu Emulator could only sample for two seconds, so the hook was based around ""the only bit of the"
"States Army during Operation Hump in South Vietnam on November 8, 1965. The intro mentions that Harris was ""the guy that gave Big Kenny his top hat"", and that he was among the wounded who were saved by Army medic Lawrence Joel, the first living African American to receive the Medal of Honor since the Spanish–American War of 1898. The song is in a 6/8 time signature, and is in A mixolydian with a primary chord pattern of A–G–D–A. Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a positive rating. He said the song is the best"
"849,000 military deaths during the war for the period between 1955 and 1975, of which 1/3 were non-combat deaths, (it is unclear whether or not this figure includes the 300-330,000 PAVN/VC soldiers missing in the war), while 58,220 Americans and about 313,000 South Vietnamese combatants died in the conflict. The official US Department of Defense figure was 950,765 communist forces killed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1974. Defense Department officials believed that these body count figures need to be deflated by 30 percent. Lewis Sorley in ""A Better War"" cites Douglas Pike with a figure of 900,000 PAVN/VC dead by"
"says he was 19 years old when he died in 1916. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there were eight soldiers named ""William McBride"", and a further six listed as ""W. McBride"", who died in France or Belgium during the First World War but none matches the soldier in the song. Two ""William McBrides"" and one ""W. McBride"" died in 1916 but one is commemorated in the Thiepval Memorial and has no gravestone. The other two are buried in the Authuille Military Cemetery but one was aged 21 and the age of the other is unknown. All three were"
"Barry Sadler Barry Allen Sadler (November 1, 1940November 5, 1989) was an American soldier, singer/songwriter, and author. Sadler served as a Green Beret medic, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant. He served in the Vietnam War from late December 1964 to late May 1965. Most of his work has a military theme, and he is best known for his patriotic ""Ballad of the Green Berets,"" a #1 hit in 1966. Sadler was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the second son of John Sadler and Bebe Littlefield of Phoenix, Arizona. According to Sadler's autobiography, ""I'm A Lucky One"", his father developed"
"all as ""Vietnam-era veterans"". In the English-speaking world, the term ""Vietnam veteran"" is not usually used in relation to members of the communist People's Army of Vietnam or the Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front). Although exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, it is safe to say that several million people served in the South Vietnamese armed forces, the vast majority of them in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), between 1956 and 1975. It is known that in 1969 to 1971, there were about 22,000 ARVN combat deaths per year and the army reached"
"interview dialogue (""I wasn't really sure what was going on"") and news reports from ""Vietnam Requiem"" the ABC television documentary about the post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by Vietnam veterans. In 2009, the song placed at 73 on VH1's ""100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s."" ""19"" had huge international success in the charts; it went to No. 1 in the UK for five weeks, as well as another of other countries worldwide. ""19"" became the top-selling single in 13 countries for 1985. This was helped by the fact that versions of the song, spoken by well-known local news anchors, were"
"chart and No. 2 on ""Billboard's"" Country survey. The song was written by then Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, beginning when he was training to be a Special Forces medic. The author Robin Moore, who wrote the book, ""The Green Berets"", helped Sadler write the lyrics and get a recording contract with RCA Records. The lyrics were written, in part, in honor of Green Beret U.S. Army Specialist 5 James Gabriel, Jr., the first native Hawaiian to die in Vietnam, who was killed by Viet Cong gunfire while on a training mission with the South Vietnamese Army on April 8, 1962."
"reflected in the table. A 1995 demographic study in ""Population and Development Review"" calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965–75. The study came up with a most likely Vietnamese death toll of 882,000, which included 655,000 adult males (above 15 years of age), 143,000 adult females, and 84,000 children. Those totals include only Vietnamese deaths, and do not include American and other allied military deaths which amounted to about 64,000. The study has been criticized for its small sample size, the imbalance in the sample between rural and urban areas, and the"
"are commonly played in the United States. The Vietnam war produced a hit song in 1966, ""Ballad of the Green Berets"" which has a martial rhythm. Curtis Mayfield's 1963 hit ""Amen"" also features a marching rhythm, as does the US Top 40 hit, ""Burning Bridges"" by The Mike Curb Congregation (1971). In Vietnam and in particular in the Second Gulf War and in Afghanistan, recorded music (often featuring rap music) has been used by some soldiers as they travel, prepare for and engage in battle. Performers such as Eminem have written songs with specific reference to the current wars including"
"drums, bass, and a light, wailing female vocal sample. Jedi Mind Tricks vocalist Vinnie Paz provides the opening verse, a first-person narrative telling the story of a young, scared and confused United States soldier stationed in Gia Định, who, after seeing the carnage of battle and the corruption of the Army, begins to question the real motives behind the Vietnam War. R.A. the Rugged Man's verse recounts the war experience of his father, highly decorated war hero Staff Sgt. John A. Thorburn, who was nearly killed in a crash near Cambodia after his helicopter's pilot was hit. He reaches a"
"in stainless steel lettering."" Amongst the quotations is: A ""normal language"" explanation of each quote has been included, courtesy of the late Brigadier Alf Garland: At the 40th-year commemoration of the Battle of Long Tần, 18 August 2006, veterans were accompanied by Australian Ambassador Bill Tweddle at the Long Tan Cross; following the commemoration a concert was held at Vũng Tàu where Schumann (and The Vagabond Crew) sang ""I Was Only 19."" He also introduced Long Tần veteran Storen as the source for the song. For an SBS TV special ""Vietnam Nurses"" (2005), director Polly Watkins chose ""Redgum and John"
"US Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) states, ""A Vietnam era veteran is a person who In 2004, the US Census Bureau reported there were 8.2 million Vietnam era veterans who were living in the U.S., 2.59 million of them being reported to have actually served ""in country."" More than 58,000 U.S. military personnel died as a result of the conflict. That includes deaths from all categories including deaths while missing, captured, non-hostile deaths, homicides, and suicides. The Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes veterans that served in the country, then known as the"
"narrative that made sense in two seconds"". Hardcastle wasn't optimistic about the song's chances in the charts. His previous two singles for independent labels had failed to make it into the UK's top 40 and the musical policy at Radio 1 was felt to be unsupportive of dance music. News interest in the song helped, with the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War seeing Hardcastle interviewed by Alastair Stewart of ITN. Tony Blackburn, then breakfast DJ for Radio London was an early supporter of the song and it quickly reached number 1 in the UK and most"
"sang another hit song about Australians in Vietnam: ""I was only 19"", released in 1983. The Battle of Khe Sanh was fought between US Marines with elements of the South Vietnamese ARVN, and the North Vietnamese Army. The only Australian personnel to be directly involved in the siege were the crews of Canberra bombers operated by 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, who flew close air support missions in the area. ""Sanh"" is often misspelled (even, at times, on official album covers and sleeve notes) as ""Sahn"". During the Australian cricket team's tour of the Caribbean in 1994–1995, the players"
"of feelings and sadness. The song describes some of the people that he carries. Among them are soldiers from Fort Campbell who tell him that they ""hate that war in Vietnam"". This line has been cited as an example of the anti-war movement's presence in country music in the late 1960s. Ryles' original version of ""Kay"" spent 17 weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts, peaking at number 9. It also reached number 83 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Ryles re-recorded it for ABC Records in 1978, including this version on his album ""Shine on Me"". Billy Lee Riley also"
"New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen."" The Reagan campaign briefly used ""Born in the U.S.A."", a song criticizing the treatment of Vietnam War veterans (which they mistakenly thought was devoid of anti-war content), as a campaign song, without permission, until Springsteen, a lifelong Democrat, insisted that they stop. The Reagan campaign was very skilled at producing effective television advertising. Two of the more memorable ads it produced were commonly known as ""Bear in the woods"" and ""Morning in America"". Reagan was the oldest president to have ever served (he was by this point 73), and there were many questions about his capacity"
"is the first Australian pop song to directly address the issue of the Vietnam War, which was now affecting the lives of many young Australians because of the controversial introduction of conscription in 1965. 20-year-old Keays was one of hundreds of potential conscripts whose birthday (9 September) was picked in a 1966 ballot. He was able to legally avoid the draft by signing with the Citizens Military Force (CMF, later renamed the Army Reserve) and eluded a ""short back and sides"" haircut with the aid of his girlfriend, who pinned his long hair up under his slouch hat whenever he"
"2016 album ""The Last Stand"". Camouflage (Stan Ridgway song) ""Camouflage"" is a song by Stan Ridgway, from his 1986 album ""The Big Heat"". Despite not charting in the United States, the song was a top 5 European hit, peaking at #2 in Ireland and #4 in the United Kingdom. The song is sung from the viewpoint of a young P.F.C. (Private first class) of the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam war. On a search and destroy mission he is separated from his patrol. Alone in the jungle, ""hunting Charlies"", he fears for his life when, unexpectedly, a ""big"
"Ballad of the Green Berets ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army. It is one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light and in 1966 became a major hit, reaching No. 1 for five weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and four weeks on Cashbox. Ultimately, the song was named Billboard's #1 single for the year 1966. It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on ""Billboard's"" Easy Listening"
"dramatically, to nearly 20 million by 1970. In the late 1960s the baby-boom generation reached draft age, and many risked arrest to oppose the war in Vietnam. There were numerous demonstrations and strikes, most famously on the prestigious Berkeley campus of the University of California, across the bay from San Francisco. In 1965, race riots erupted in Watts, in the South Central area of Los Angeles. The hippie riots on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles were immortalized by Buffalo Springfield in the song ""For What It's Worth"" (1966). Some commentators predicted revolution. Then the federal government promised to withdraw"
"band with their eclectic performances at the Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore, the Monterey Pop Festival, and both the original and 1979 reunion Woodstock Festivals. Their best known song is his ""The ""Fish"" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag"" (1965), a black comedy novelty song about the Vietnam War, whose familiar chorus (""One, two, three, what are we fighting for?"") is well-known to the Woodstock generation and Vietnam veterans of the 1960s and '70s. McDonald wrote the song in about 20 minutes for an anti-Vietnam War play. The ""Fish Cheer"" was the band performing a call-and-response with the audience, spelling the word ""fish"", followed by"