Music can open our eyes to a lot of what was happening in history. In the songs, "Turn Turn Turn" and "I Ain't Marching Anymore", the listener gets an inside look on how people in the 1960s were feeling about certain things happening at this time and their ideologies on these matters.  There were so many things happening at this time. The Vietnam War, Civil Rights protesting, the assassinations of U.S. President John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and the Cuban Missile Crisis were the crucial point of interests in the sixties. Toward the end of the sixties something some would say magical happened and the first man landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong, after the Apollo 11 spacecraft blasted its way into our atmosphere on July 16, 1969. This was a sigh of relief because of all the bad that happened in the sixties. These songs depict the Vietnam War and the want for peace during this time. 

To begin with, "Turn Turn Turn" is about how people in the sixties really wanted peace from the war. The lead singer, Pete Seeger, was a social activist and was active in the civil rights movement, labor movement, environmental movement, and anti-war movement. All of these movements were prevalent in the 1960s. He had the belief that music could bring people together to fight against what is not right and tried to rally them with his songs. Most of this song and the chorus come from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. This shows that they wanted the violence to stop and for the conflict to be resolved peacefully. In the song Seeger explains that there are bad times but we have to grow from them and try to fix whatever caused the problem. He wants people to know they can stand up for what they believe in and conquer it if they all stand together as a united front. This song is to reassure the listener that there is a time for the bad in life but the good is coming. "To everything ...  there is a season", this is restating the fact that Seeger believed that only good can come from the bad. His plea for peace is explained in the last line of the song, "A time for peace I swear it's not too late". He wanted people of the time to stand against the war in Vietnam and hoped for peace through it all. 
