- The Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie) – A true citizen of the world, Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in Piapot, Saskatchewan, grew up in New England where she received an advanced degree in English and became a leading activist in the 1960s which she describes in this introduction to her international anti-war song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00