"Rooster" and the Vietnam War

How does the human body respond to music? The best part about being a human is the fact that music itself has the power to move a person or a group of people. Music can make people cry, give them goose bumps, anger them, make them happy, and play with many other emotions. The experience one may get when plugging in their headphones and listening to “Rooster” by Alice In Chains for the first time is a bone chilling, spine tingling one. “Rooster” is a song that depicts the many horrors of the Vietnam War extremely well. Many people were killed, young and old, much money was spent on this war, and much violence spread back in the USA with years of protest and anti-war movements that defined the 1960's in America. On the Twenty-Ninth of June, 1965, 10 years into the intense fighting and bloodshed that is the Vietnam War, 4,000 Paratroopers of the United States of America's Army's 101st Airborne Division, also known as the Screaming Eagles, arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. (101st Division Arrives) In 1967, the rest of the Screaming Eagles met up with what was left of the original 4,000 troops, and in 1969, President Nixon started to take troops out of Vietnam under the radar, but he left the 101st Division completely (101st Division Arrives). A Shau Valley was a very important focal point for the North Vietnamese Army, so in 1970, the Screaming Eagles were tasked with re-taking control of that Valley. While the Screaming Eagles were preparing for the fight, the North Vietnamese Army was setting traps for the Americans. When the fighting started, it was the outnumbered 101st Airborne Division, versus the Prepared, plethora of North Vietnamese Soldiers at the battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord, one of the deadliest battles of the entire war. In just under a month, a whopping 75 American Soldiers were killed in the fire, some being young kids just drafted, not even a month out of High School (101st Division Arrives). This led to many people to become outraged with the