This episode of Songstory  takes a historical snapshot of the tumultuous decade of the Vietnam War and uses music to help tell the story. 1960s music is already a lay down misère as being some of the best folk, rock, and popular music of all time, but there is a sub-genre from the 60s, known as Vietnam War music. It’s a vast catalogue of songs that includes, songs protesting the war, songs supporting the war, songs about the war, songs popular at the time of the war, and finally, songs most requested at the time by frontline soldiers.