Well, it doesn't look like this one will generate a lot of response. Most of the posters weren't even born yet.
I'm not going to pretend that I agree with everything sung in this video. I do remember "the hippies" well. But I have to wonder if the song-video author is referring to the Summer of Love Hippies, or those who move on to make meanings of their lives. Because the Summer of Love Hippies themselves were a joke. Their credo was to not work at all, beg for the food and basics they needed, do drugs all day, and make babies in communes. Yes, they didn't want to go to war. Too many of them were too lazy to work for their own lives, let alone go on the battlefront! I remember them in the Bay Area and in coastal towns, where we had our family vacations. I made friends with a few (though I didn't do dope or have anything in common with them), and watched them and many others just "hang out" and do nothing all day. Truly, I don't think these people made a lick o' change to anything in society except provide a gateway to more drugs in the future. You simply cannot take seriously a culture of people spaced on LSD trips. No, I don't think those "dirty hippies were right" (although they did encourage bright colors and influenced the greatestest rock music of all time).
However, most of them eventually learned that life couldn't continue that way and some carved out productive lives, went to school, even formed cool communities. For example, Idylwild in the St. Jacinto Mountians of Calif is primarily a 'hippie community' and it's a darling place. Many went on to pursue lives involved in environmental and natural alternatives. Others learned that they actually liked having lots of money and joined Yuppieville (Abbie Hoffman accused Jerry Rubin of selling out, as their lives went opposite directions).
I think it's the colleges who made more of an impact and had more of a vision.
I did not support the Viet Nam war, either. But I have had quite a lot of ex-vets express to me that, although they grew bitter about being there, wished that they had at least won the war. One of them lost all his limbs in battle, and undoubtedly, winning the war would have justified his tragedy in his mind.
You, yourself, served in 'Nam, right? Do you share the same feelings these men do?
It's a profound video. Glad you shared it.