![]() In Burns’ soundtrack, we hear the rhythm & blues of Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightnin” and The Temptations “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” the latter is a particularly poignant reminder of the desperation inherent to the era. An inordinate amount of minority youths from Latino and African American communities were being drafted to serve with disenfranchised whites from the middle of the country. The real victims of this farce of course, were common American youths not only of draft age in 1965, but also children who for the following 10 years, would be coming of age during a war that seemed to have no logical end to it. ![]()
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