Vietnam
1988 · 50 Skidillion Watts WAT5 · Uniontown, Maryland
- Artist
- Half Japanese
- Title
- Vietnam
- Release
- Charmed
- Year
- 1988
- Label
- 50 Skidillion Watts # WAT5
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Uniontown, Maryland, USA
- Genre
- Rock · Alternative Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Punk Songs
Art Punk / Indie Rock group Half Japanese, from Coldwater, Michigan, USA, which formed in 1974, released the song "Vietnam" (Fifty Skidillion Watts Records # H J 5), in which a soldier was "headed out from Californ-I-A...over there to Vietnam" - the 1A of course being a play on the classification for those "eligible for military service", established in 1971 (under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967). Other common classifications were 1-AO (Conscientious Objector available for non-combatant military service), and 1-O (Conscientious Objector available for alternate community service).1 The song also referenced the North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh, and made reference to contemporary conflict in El Salvador. Sources1vietnamlotteryfate.com: Selective service classifications↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Band formed Coldwater, Michigan, USA
Themes
Saigon · Vet · Anti-War · El Salvador · Draft · Vietnam Analogy