1969-1970: in the tumultuous, end-of-the-decade time stuck between the free love of Woodstock and the national nightmare at Kent State.... three roommates and their band of fraternity brothers at Dartmouth College confront a year of living dangerously when their draft numbers are drawn in the first national draft lottery since WWII - and their road trip culture crashes head-on into the specter of Vietnam.
The universal - usually joyful - college passage abruptly becomes a deeper, darker journey -- and the sound track shifts from Otis Redding's laid-back "Dock of the Bay," to Country Joe MacDonald's seminal protest song: "Well it's one, to, three, what are we fighting for?...."
For the members of the class of 1970 - the first of their generation to graduate with a diploma and a draft number - they were fighting for their lives.
The universal - usually joyful - college passage abruptly becomes a deeper, darker journey -- and the sound track shifts from Otis Redding's laid-back "Dock of the Bay," to Country Joe MacDonald's seminal protest song: "Well it's one, to, three, what are we fighting for?...."
For the members of the class of 1970 - the first of their generation to graduate with a diploma and a draft number - they were fighting for their lives.
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