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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967), 27 songs

US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, while the antiwar movement grows.

  • 12 Ghosts II — Nine Inch Nails
    Jean-Marie Crocker's anxiety about Mogie Crocker. Mogie Crocker's letters from Vietnam.
  • Masters of War — Bob Dylan
    The Staple Singers cover Dylan's "Masters of War" . Mogie is disillusioned by his assignment to a non-combat position.
  • On, Brave Old Army Team — US Military Academy Band
    Matt Harrison and family. Growing up in a military family. At West Point.
  • Mustang Sally — Wilson Pickett
    Rodger Harris, Roxbury Boston. John Musgrave, Fairmount Missouri. Bill Ehrhart, Perkasie Pennsylvania. Motivations for enlisting in USMC.
  • Semper Fidelis March — United States Marine Band
    Film clips of USMC boot camp.
  • Pieces Form the Whole — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
    Binh Dinh province. Jan—March 1966. First large-scale Search and Destroy operation. Operation Masher (later Operation White Wing). Refugees, homeless. No front. Body count.
  • A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall — Bob Dylan
  • Smokestack Lightnin' — Howlin' Wolf
    Mogie Crocker. May 1966. Assigned to a combat unit.
  • Willing Conscript — Pete Seeger
    Anti-war movement begins to increase as middle class is drafted.
  • Backlash Blues — Nina Simone
    African-American recruits and draftees. Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali. Draftee rate increase from 10,000 to 30,000 per month.
  • 13 Ghosts II — Nine Inch Nails
    Duong Van Mai Elliott, Saigon. Daughter of official in South Vietnam government. Work for Rand Corporation.
  • Pinned and Mounted — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
    Le Quan Cong, Viet Cong.
  • Sunshine Superman — Donovan
    [0:45] Working with villagers of South Vietnam. Measuring results of pacification.
  • The Wretched (Remix) — Nine Inch Nails
  • The Sound of Silence — Simon & Garfunkel
    Mogie Crocker. Despair evident in letters home.
  • L'assassinat de Carala — Miles Davis
    Mogie Crocker, June 3, 1966. KIA.
  • The Beginning Of The End — Nine Inch Nails
  • One Too Many Mornings — Bob Dylan
    [1:06] Crocker family informed of Mogie Crocker's death. June 1966.
  • Nho'em (I Miss You) — Le Tu Cuong
    Bao Ninh, Hanoi. Ho Guy Lab, NVA. Effects of U.S. bombing. Merrill McPeak, USAF.
  • Ho Nen — Vietnamese work song
    North Vietnamese population response to U.S. bombing. "The enemy destroys, we repair."
  • I Am a Rock — Simon & Garfunkel
    Craig McNamara, son of Robert McNamara. Commenting on his father.
  • Footprints (Live) — Wayne Shorter
    Dr. Benjamin Spock. Martin Luther King.
  • Ain't Too Proud To Beg — The Temptations
    Bill Ehrhart, John Musgrave, Roger Harris. Early 1967.
  • Talkin' World War III Blues — Bob Dylan
    April 1967. Anti-war demonstration in Central Park. 500,000. National Mobilization To End the War.
  • Wild Child — The Ventures
  • Later Into the Night — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
    Westmoreland requests 200,000 more troops so that Laos and Cambodia can be invaded. Robert McNamara has doubts.
  • Ravine — Genesis
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