"Universal Soldier". By Buffy Sainte-Marie. 

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Born: February 20, 1941 Birth Name: Beverly Sainte-Marie Country of origin: Canada Author of "Universal Soldier"

[Audio] The Vietnam War started to try stop a domino effect where several countries would become communist. Over one million people were killed and over 50 thousand of them were American soldiers.. 

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[Audio] When the war started, most USA citizens showed total support for deploying troops to Vietnam however, when the war continued for several years, people started to protest the war. Buffy Sainte-Marie was traveling by plane and met some medics and wounded soldiers at the airport who assured her the war was real. She immediately started to write her song "Universal Soldier" which was to become the war anthem protesting the Vietnam War.. 

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"Universal Soldier" released in 1965 protesting the Vietnam war

[Audio] This song made to protest the Vietnam war was written in such a way, that it can also be referred to for other world events and wars. It does not once specifically mention the war in Nam but it talks about war in general.. 

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He's five foot-two and he's six feet-four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31 and he's only 17 Been a soldier for a thousand year He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain A Buddhist, and a Baptist, and a Jew And he knows he shouldn't kill And he knows he always will Kill you for me, my friend, and me for you And he's fighting for Canada He's fighting for France He's fighting for the U.S.A And he's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Japan And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for Democracy He's fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide Who's to live and who's to die And he never sees the writing on the wall But without him How would Hitler have condemned them at Labau? Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war And without him all this killing can't go on He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from here and there and you and me And brothers, can't you see? This is not the way we put the end to war

"Universal Soldier"

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The Vietnam War started to try stop a domino effect where several countries would become communist

Over one million people were killed and over 50 thousand of them were American soldiers.

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When the war started, most USA citizens showed total support for deploying troops to Vietnam however, when the war continued for several years, people started to protest the war

Buffy Sainte-Marie was traveling by plane and met some medics and wounded soldiers at the airport who assured her the war was real

She immediately started to write her song "Universal Soldier" which was to become the war anthem protesting the Vietnam War.

This song made to protest the Vietnam war was written in such a way, that it can also be referred to for other world events and wars

It does not once specifically mention the war in Nam but it talks about war in general.

"Universal Soldier"

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