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#Ecclesiastes
2 · Ecclesiastes
Article · Music
Seeger borrowed almost every word. The verse already had the rhythm of the song.
Seeger added almost nothing — *turn, turn, turn* and one closing line about peace. Everything else was Ecclesiastes 3, written roughly twenty-five centuries before the Vietnam draft.
Article · Film
The Marines waited months for a war. Ecclesiastes had named the wait itself.
Swofford's memoir is about Marines who never fired in anger. The verse it sits beside names every season of human time — except, the film argues, the one the soldier was given.