60's...words escape me

As you might already know, my class was assigned a blog project where we have to collaborate with other Clemson freshman english classes and other University of South Carolina-Upstate freshman english classes. The topic of this blog is 60's music and how it influenced and continues to influence society. When I visited the homepage of this blog, I found a series of pictures depicting the world in the 60's. Out of all the pictures, one picture caught my eye-the picture where the solider is walking away from the house surrounding by thick brush. The interesting part of the picture is the solider is walking away in a calm, serene mood; meanwhile, there is some sort of landmine or bomb exploding in the background. The fact that the solider does not respond to the explosion shows us that sadly enough things like this was normal for the soliders in Vietnam. As most everyone knows, this is normal for most all soldiers in Vietnam and elsewhere. When our soldiers came home, they had no motivation to do anything not because of laziness, but because they had seen death almost everywhere. I guess that's why we do not use the draft anymore...