![]() ![]() But as any Top 10 goes this is the most complete one chosen by Vets. The masses of great music from this era make any list far from definite. Realizing, of course, that every soldier had their own special song that helped bring them home. ![]() These are the 10 most mentioned songs by the Vietnam vets we interviewed. ![]() Well, it didn’t take long for us to realize that to do justice to the vets’ diverse, and personal, musical experiences would require something more like a Top 200 - or 2,000! Still, we did find some common ground. When we began our interviews, we planned to organize it into a set of essays focusing on the most frequently mentioned songs, a Vietnam Vets Top 20 if you will, harkening back to the radio countdowns that so many of us grew up listening to. What with this being about pop music, Bradley’s compiled a Top 10 Songs of Vietnam. 1968: A US GI looks at a dead peasant by a ditch in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. ![]()
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