Ten 80s videos I like - #7 19

First of all I must express my disappointment that I cannot share the 1985 version of 19 that was shown in the US on MTV.  When I pull it up on YouTube I get the following message: 

This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. 

The show must go on.  It would be easier to omit this video from the list.  However this is one of the best ever regardless of decade as it was educational and entertaining.  By 1985 a group of kids like me was growing up with little real knowledge of Vietnam.  Maybe some saw movies like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Uncommon Valor, Platoon, and Good Morning Vietnam.  While some of those movies had qualities, it could not carry the more realistic impact of a short music video like 19.  Later when I read more about Vietnam I came to appreciate this effort even more.  I oppose the US's empire building foreign policy, the military industrial complex, and useless, wasteful wars like Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan.  If my 12 year-old son ever asked me about Vietnam  I would show him the video.  Just a minute, this just in, I found the video on Dailymotion via a search on Yahoo!

Since Blogger (Google) won't allow anything but a YouTube video you'll have to click on the link I had shortened on bit.ly.

http://yhoo.it/RhQY9L