John Fogerty

I think the deal being, okay, I'm in the military, so now I got to...

play by the rules.

I got to do everything that's, this is what I am, right?

There's a little bit of the whole idea of being American and serving your country.

I'm trying not to say, oh yeah, now I'm gung-ho and I'm John Wayne and I'm going to take on Iwo Jima or something.

It was more like, yeah, but you got to do this right.

You can't just be a

some guy that's on AWOL all the time and being a mess, I wanted to do it right.

So I went through all of that.

It's another story, but eventually got my honorable discharge, which led to another song, but it's a different song.

And that was just before, just as the Creedence career was getting started.

But anyhow, during the Vietnam time, there was a lot of unrest, civil unrest in America and around the world.

Those times were very volatile.

But especially in America, there was...

a lot of protests and discussion about the war itself.

Remember, there was a draft, so young people kind of by nature were against the war and against the draft, because it seemed to be sort of not logical as that.

And in some instances, you would see on the news, you know, some senator who had the political clout that he could keep his teenage son from being drafted or get his teenage son into some cushy job.

And you kind of saw it a few times.

These guys were—the fix was in, you know.

Right.