People were numb and continued to live their normal lives while their soldiers were dying. The entire scenario seems to normalize the war. Jim Morrison sings about how in the late 60’s American families stared at violent television images, watching a world far away where the unknown soldier is shot, yet life at home went on as usual. The lyrics “Breakfast where the news is read/ Television children fed/ Unborn living, living dead/ Bullets strike the helmet’s head” portray s how the news of the Vietnam War was being presented to ordinary people. The song, however was more of dig at the American media and the way that the Vietnam conflict was televised into our homes and became a part of our daily lives. Released in 1968 by the Doors, the Unknown Soldier was considered an antiwar song and banned on many radio stations.
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