Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

CREDITS How do you differentiate music of yesterday and songs of this new millennium? How do OLD and NEW songs influence human race and affect the lives of people from every generation? My son, who is currently in second year high school, asked me about a particular song by Peter Paul and Mary entitled " Where Have All the Flowers Gone ". Actually, I have no idea about the song except for the knowledge that it's an old song sung by an old classic group. He searched it in YouTube and played. So, what's the point in being curious with this more than five decade song? Well, it's an Asian History assignment and Kurt will make a reaction paper on this. I only shared some of my views about the song and my own interpretation but apparently, I found myself searching the internet and this is what I found: