Old school 😊 The year was 1967, written to protest the #vietnamwar draft. In his story, Arlo Guthrie went to Alice's Restaurant where he was arrested and convicted of dumping trash illegally, which later endangers his suitability for the #military draft. This song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1965, the ground campaign of the Vietnam War began in a conflict that wo