I am writing my essay on the Vietnam War and how the media directly influenced the hippie movement and all of the anti-war songs that came out during this time. Thousands of young people became completely outraged when the US government sent thousands of young men to fight in Vietnam where almost 60,000 would die and after Hiroshima was bombed. The hippies were all about peace and love and protested the war just as several singers of the time created anti-war songs.