Speaking about his team-mates, one black soldier declares, "What they been through in the bush, plus what they have to go through back in the world, they can't face it.
Throughout the recording, their rage is tangible. Wallace Terry, the Vietnam correspondent for Time magazine between 19, taped black soldiers airing their anger in the summer of 1969. In the song, he moaned grimly, "We've got so much trouble at home," before adding simply, "We don't need to go to Vietnam." But the black American soldiers already in Vietnam, trudging tirelessly across that country's saturated rice fields or creeping through its elephant grass and sticky, airless jungles, were understandably more explicit in expressing themselves.
At the height of the Vietnam war in 1969, John Lee Hooker recorded I Don't Want To Go To Vietnam.
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