This was and still is a great anti-war song. I had the 45 RPM record in 1962 and played it when I was introspective about the Vietnam War. I went there in 1968. Like you, I'm 77 this year. Welcome Home. Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF (Ret)

​@@rvnmedic1968 My time was spent with the: 173rd Airborne Brigade/74th Infantry Detachment/LRRP RVN '66 - '69 Welcome Home, Brother...

I spent three years recruiting in the Marines, and had to spend time at the Vietnam wall, and the Beirut wall, and have to remember Afghanistan and Beirut. Twenty five years of tears since. Two decades in service, didn't learn.

Needles ? It delayed what we're facing here at home today.

Thank you for your service.

Yes a terrible waste of young lives ,on both sides

Yep dear, sympathy from Vietnam side

58,000. I just missed it. That said, music like this HAD to have helped you through it?

Thank you for your service. My husband was in the Air Force.

I got drafted and was taught how to treat the physical injuries.

you did give all love you brother

5000 Dead African Americans every day from Abortion. 50,000 Dead Americans every 10 Days from Abortion. Is this what you fought for? “When will they ever learn” 😢😢😢

Welcome home brother.

Rich Weatherly....and "ALL" Veterans of The War in Vietnam......Thank You for your Service and God Bless You and Yours!! I'm 68. My draft card was 1- H (Holding). I didn't have to serve and I didn't want to go to war like probably most, if not all others.....but the flip side of THAT coin is, I didn't feel like I was "that" special, either, to get to stay home. Many school friends of mine....and other friends had to Serve in that RIDICULOUS war....only to come home to a CRUEL AND UNGRATEFUL NATION! My Cousin, Douglas Griffin (RIP, Doug!!), got killed in that War. I might not have passed the Physical Exam. Until I turned 35, I never saw the scale go over 119lbs. Skinny and even Hospitalized for Anemia at a young age. Getting a LOT of B-12 shots in my younger life. Once again, Rich......THANK YOU, SIR!!

i get a tear

@@gilbertolinger3874 Thank you for the kind words!

Bruceg, you called Rich Weatherly "Brother". Did you serve in Vietnam, too? If so, please read my comment to him..... it's meant for You, as well.....and possibly any OTHER Veterans who might make a comment. If you didn't serve, like myself, Thank You for taking time out with kindness to Rich.......him and ALL Vietnam Vets "MORE" than DESERVE it!! God Bless You and Yours, Sir!!

I'm 60! 5'10" 185 lb. Tears here too Dan! I'm not that tough either my friend. Peace ~

@@TheJackflash85 Right my brother!! Peace always!!

@@danlandavazo1506 no it shows you have heart to cry its not a weakness. We went thought that lie of a war Vietnam Watergate etc I am 72 and cry with certaine songs too

You are a genuine tough guy and no mistake and honest too, good on ya mate.

I think of Vietnam, the soldiers, the children & women caught in the midst of the senseless but violent turmoil!

cool but this was the 60s

Yep, I graduated in 1967 and over 80 of the class members have died since then.

@@rick3514 Hmmm... How do you know how many? I graduated in 65 from a class A school was yours a class A or smaller?

​@@RonDee0817 😊😊😊😊😊😊

I hate getting old, too. There was something so special about being a child of the sixties.

Gordon Lightfoot gone now too. At least their greatness will live on timelessly in their music .

I thank him with all my heart. 🫡

my dad's friend,who i am named after did the same in 1945 on d -day--my dad's plane went down too but he and crew walked away--they marched across france to germany and shared vodka with the russians in germany

I often wonder if this chapter will ever be repeated. I hope.

@@scottbruns5142 maybe. But I don't think so. There's a KZfaq video about a year ago using 2 young girls.

Yes there was. I will try to find it.

We will never learn!

I agree

You are so right my friend.

could not agree more, yet, neither of these lovely ladies were listed in the top 20 or 40 females singers

I'm not surprised Trevor. Did you see the Grammys this year?

@@scottgauthier6537 No Scott , i have no time for them

I am completely with you and well done, thanks,Colin

Wasn't he a war monger

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLqVfbqCsta8YHk.html 2million iraqi people died on his lies

My father recieved three battle stars in the Pacfic Theater. One Uncle helped liberate Dachau. Another earned a purple heart at Monte Cassino in Italy. Know what they said when I went to Vietnam? Stop the chickenshit wars so politicians can fool the goobers and get elected. Trump was a draft dodger as was W. Bush. Wanna wave the flag? Vote Blue.

Amen ☁️🎺👼💒🙏🌹✨

Hello judy lee how are you doing today?

Ill reply, your song is brilliant, to Jackie and family, this I wish is heart warming, and thankyou for, my Childhood, you made, my day, Jackie, God Bless you, rgdsColin Scotland.

True, completely professional.

Your mum, made an era, which I won't forget, rgds Scotland.

Too bad Mary died. She had such a lovely singing voice!

if you say so....

@@lewisc215 It's not that I say so, It's just my opinion. You should know by now that this forum is all about opinions, not solid fact.

She gave it all her emotion. That was how the folk singers were back then.

And mine, too. The 60s were the special coming of age years for so many of us.

So much time has passed, so many things have changed, it seems surreal. Mary is gone and Paul and Peter are in their 80's; hard to believe. Don't let another day pass without appreciating the experience of life.

Amen!

❤❤❤

I heard this song from the searchers pop group around 1965

I first saw her perform with P&P at the World's Fair in New York 1964. I was enamored and wanted to ask her for a date, but I was only 13 at the time.

Amen.

I listened to it during the Vietnam war. We still haven't learned.

Neocon warmongers never learn.

@@paulantonn9245 I didn't know Putin was a neocon!

I am part of the Gulf War generation, the next generation probably will not learn either sadly.

To think it all starts with young girls picking flowers

The human condition! Probably never will learn?

They could indeed .

For sure ...

It's a little thing called talent. Takes a lot of practice but it sure pays in the end.😃😍

....and auto-tune.

pp&m all 3 gone now. Sadly.

Lovely song My fawert song

I agree. The music said something and made us think!

Mary was an angel. Loved her singing. If this song didn't make you choke up, nothing will.

Joan Baez had the most amazing voice that I have ever heard and I am 71 and got to live through the greatest folk singers that will ever exist.

True

Vietnam and the Mideast wars had rules of engagement forced on the military, that made these wars last longer so their buddies in the "Military Industrial Complex," could get richer supplying the wars. If you got fired on, you had to call for permission to fire and warning shot at them, before you could shoot back to kill them. President Eisenhower warned about when he was leaving office. He said. "Beware of The Military Industrial Complex." Ask anyone that was in Vietnam or the Mideast wars.

In the current political and cultural climate of the US, the principal of the school would be forced to resign if the junior choir was allowed to sing such a subversive song.

you are lucky many of my friends from 60s never got old

I can't wait to hear her in HEAVEN!

While you say that.....there are indeed animals out there which want nothing more than to totally destroy you, me and our way of life.

Nothing changes and many of the people Congress attracts - you wouldn't want them as neighbors or co-workers. Much contempt for where they have taken us.

@@mrlaw711 You can say the same for the world....not knowing the mother of Muhammad can be a death sentence.

Mostly now lost for most of us today. World Conflicts abound.

Hi Brenda💐💐

Indeed she was!

Such a waste of life these horrendous wars😢

Amen! Jesus is the answer!

Truly the ONE and ONLY Hope of this world!

Truly the ONE and ONLY Hope of this world!

yes some of us did and more of us since b/c of what happened to us and still are from that dirty little war Ppl dont know just how bad war is. Ppl just dont die while fighting them but form what happened to them many yrs after the war is done The man I was named after did WW1 he pasted in 66 when is lungs finely gave into the gas he inhaled He went to war a man of 19 came home a boy of 10 or 12 and stayed there for the next 47 yr Me I have diabetes from exposure to agent orange That dirty little war will kill me some day too So when will the rich ever learn When there are no more rich

Connie, it's important to understand: WE have learned. Governments and the Military Industrial Complex makes those decisions. Look at what's happening now (March 03). Biden has committed the US to victory in Ukraine. No. Matter. What. I'm guessing you are against this. So am I, my friend.

And then we left for Vietnam. Never to be the same again. Innocence lost. Where have all the young men gone? Some are still there. Vietnam combat veteran 1966/67.

@@barrysmith8193 Welcome home brother.

😢 thank you for your remembrance * may peace prevail 🙏 🕯 🏵

I Remer. Nam vet, medic 66 to 69.

Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day. Stay Safe

Yep - I feel it too.

@@stephensmith60 Real music

RIP Mary

Amen!

It wasn't all THAT great.

@@allenwatkins4972 beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

I always cry .

😔

I was in sixth, and ended up doing my own time, with bitterness looking back. "When will we ever learn?"

Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day. Stay Safe

And you are blessed with such wonderful memories!

Hello!!! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day. Stay Safe

welcome home

Haha, songs from the past! Oh he never returned, Oh he never returned, he may ride forever....

What a wonderful memory! Don't forget puff the magic dragon that lives forever, but not so little boys!.....the circle of life!

What a beautiful memory

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I also was in college in the mid to late 60s. Got to see PP&M at our college in Youngstown at the college stadium I think Summer '68. Folk ballads of the 60s were unique and powerful. An era likely never to be seen again.

Hello Sandra How are you doing today?

From your tone you have no respect for our government or military, ignoring the sacrifice of those that gave you the freedom to air your disdain. Hypocrite much?

@@kevincrosby1760 You may not be old enough to remember the turbulent times of the Vietnam War years, but if you would like to clue the rest of us as to what the purpose of that conflict was and what greater good it served, please feel free to express it. It cost the senseless loss of life and limb to thousands, and was not, by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, fought for MY freedom, or yours.

@@sandragruhle6288 The common reason stated for Vietnam was to protect South Vietnam from the NVA, and to halt communist forces in the North. It is generally considered that we lost the war. In actuality, you need to go back a few decades and look at the Japanese strategy during WW II, and how well "island hopping" worked for them. The war did serve to deny China the ability to seize Vietnam, which was very much their goal. This would have given them unrestricted access to the Paracel and Spratley Islands, making it a short jaunt to the Philippines. From there, follow the Japanese path to Hawaii. The underlying reasons for Korea were much the same. At that time, the Chinese lacked the ability to directly attack the US, but was quite capable of using the Japanese "one island at a time" approach. A Chinese presence in Hawaii would have given them the foothold needed to directly attack the US. What was found in contemporary news releases and school textbooks from that era to present do not really line up well with what is available to a bored sailor sitting in the library of a US Navy ship reading USN/DoD books about naval strategy. China is NOT our friend, and never has been. While the USSR/Russia has been the bogieman in the forefront, our military posture has been to reign in China as much or more than the Soviets/Russians over the past 75+ years. Speaking to Vietnam specifically, the Democrat-controlled US Government outright lied to us. The white House was quite aware that the whole Gulf of Tonkin affair was a combination of equipment issues and human error, and was NOT an attack by the NVA on US Naval Forces. While Johnson was sabre-rattling on the evening news, the USN was dispatching instructions for equipment upgrades and personnel training to prevent a similar mistake. The second major mistake with Vietnam was to simultaneously commit troops in-country AND set overly restrictive Rules of Engagement. We are all adults here, so I will be blunt. The sole purpose of the US (or any other) military is to kill people and blow shit up. That is what they are trained and equipped to do. What SHOULD have happened was to directly, immediately, and harshly stomp on any incursions by the NVA, China, and the Viet-Cong with all the force and means available...then go back to base or back to the ship. Instead, we opted to basically attempt to occupy an entire country, with an R.O.E. which prevented our even pasting the airbase where the planes which just bombed our troops were landing, just because it was 5 miles past an arbitrary line drawn by politicians in WA DC. Putting line troops on the ground in a situation which could have been handled primarily with Naval air assets and selective ground assaults cost the lives of thousands of troops and civilians on BOTH sides.

Speaking about vocal clarity you appear never to have listened to Judith Durham, deceased not too long ago, of the Seekers.

I would say you're into understatement........she does indeed. But some of the more perfect inflections came in earlier renditions, in my deafish opinion. Those three really blessed my youth!

I agree. I was shocked at how pro-communism they were. But their music!

@@timmorgan9814 I think we have learned over the past few years that the entertainment industry attracts the lefties - maybe it always has but we never really got to hear of their politics. Just like brave, patriotic people used to be attracted to the forces etc.

@@timmorgan9814 I disagree with the statement about their being "pro-communism". They were strongly pro civil rights, and opposed the Viet Nam War, both of which were big issues at the time. I wouldn't say that made them pro communist. Completely agree, though, about their music. There really was something magic in their music, in some very turbulent times.

@@mikebressler9041 agree with you wholeheartedly. Some of the comments here are pretty hilarious when it comes to the political spectrum. Most Americans don’t even know what communism is … they don’t know that it requires massive wealth to achieve it… they don’t know that there was never ever any real threat of communism in US history…that there will never ever be any communist or socialist threat on Uncle Sam’s ranch. The only real threat to America has always been fascism and…in fact that’s what the current crisis is all about. The only itsy bitsy tiny spec of socialism in right wing demagogic America can be found is the last convents and monasteries…if even that exists anymore where the clergy run things like a band of little Smurfs. The US is fast losing their grip on democracy as institutions are falling apart before our eyes. But this music makes up some of America’s best memories… a time gone by when folks were civil …could speak English and could actually write a sentence. The fear of the left is all made up … trumped up to keep felons , racists, religious nut jobs along with grifters ….in power. … forever. What a joke.

Indeed and I can tell you, this was my kind of music back then.

Friend not driend.

Дуже цікаво було б почути , або хоча б почитати вихідний варіант пісні, українською мовою.

God bless you Eukranians 😇

@@carolynwoodman1734 Дякую!

​​@@carolynwoodman1734 My family is Bratsky Vestnik.