"We Didn't Start The Fire"

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This paper examines the historical events mentioned in Billy Joel's song, written in response to a youth's comment that the older generation saw no history in the making during its lifetime. Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Eichmann, the Berlin Wall and The Bay of Pigs invasion are among those discussed.

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"One part of the lyrics in the song deals with the year 1961: "Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"/Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion." In reference to the year, Joel mentions these events because the journalist and author Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was tried for his war crimes, the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Richard Heinlein was published, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan was signed to a recording contract, the Berlin Wall went up dividing East Communist Germany from West Democratic Germany and the Bay of Pigs Invasion took place from April 17 though April 19."

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