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"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1965. [4] Several artists have recorded it, but the most popular recording was by Barry McGuire , on which Sloan played guitar. The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War , the draft , the threat of nuclear war , the Civil Rights Movement ...
With the end of the Vietnam War, the need for such vehicles disappeared and most were either scrapped or returned to cargo carrying. One truck, an M54 named by its crew "Eve of Destruction," was brought back intact and is on display at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
The museum has an extensive Vietnam War exhibit, including a large diorama with the gun truck Eve of Destruction (believed the only surviving Vietnam era gun truck, [10] and named after a protest song [11]), an exhibit depicting a downed UH-1 Iroquois in a rice paddy, as well as bicycles used by the Viet Cong. [12]
The Vietnam War is a 10-part American television documentary series about the Vietnam War produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and narrated by Peter Coyote. [1] [2] [3] The first episode premiered on PBS on September 17, 2017. This series is one of the few PBS series to carry a TV-MA rating.
X-Men: Eve of Destruction, a 2001 crossover storyline in Marvel Comics' X-Men series; Eve of Destruction, a 2009 Marked Series novel by S. J. Day "Eve of Destruction", a US Army Vietnam War-era gun truck
The Vietnam War Song Project has identified the song "Eve of Tomorrow" by Tony Mammarella, an answer to Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction, which contains the line: "Why did the three kids come from the north, they didn't have to join in the fight, but they marched down to Mississippi and they died for what they knew was right"
EVE War for New Eden board game. EVE: War for New Eden is a 4X strategy board game based on the world of EVE: Online and its successful Kickstarter campaign now enters its final 24 hours. The ...
As a solo folk rock singer in the 1960s, McGuire was best known for his hit "Eve of Destruction" [2] and for "Sins of a Family", both written by P. F. Sloan.McGuire's other chart successes were "Child of Our Times" and "Cloudy Summer Afternoon (Raindrops)" (written by Travis Edmonson of the 1960s folk-duo Bud & Travis).