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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]kentuck
(111,052 posts)Not only the White Album, but Hendrix, with Hey Joe, the Doors, Hello I Love You, Canned Heat, Fried Hockey Boogie, Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation, Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends, Big Brother and the Holding Company...and a few others. Music was very important in Vietnam.
Just as you were either a "short-timer" or a "lifer", you were either a "doper" or a "juicer". Some GI's had an intense dislike for "lifers" and, sometimes, would draw outlines of their least-favorite "lifers" on pieces of plywood and throw knives at it. They didn't care a whole lot for "juicers" either.
The "dopers" would usually congregate in the corner of their hootch or tent and turn on the music real low, so as not to antagonize the 90-95% that were not into it. They smoked "numbers" - not "squares". In-A-Gadda-da-Vida was like the national anthem...
(edited: changed "many" to "some".)