I really like the "Born in the USA" poem. It was funny in some parts. I really liked the end .."I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the USA." I think this really hits home for me, because two of my great uncles dies in the Vietnam War. Many brothers went over and came back alone, because they died over there.
I don't know if many people have watched the movie "Now and Then", but the part where it says " I'm ten years burning down the road, Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go" it reminds me when the girls run into the man on the road who just came back from Vietnam. He doesn't go home, he's just roaming the country.
I think even today when men come back from Iraq, they go to see someone like a V.A. to help them cope when they come home from war.
Many young men back then didn't have any thing to do in there small towns, so they went off to war, or were forced to go to war. "put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land"
I think this poem uses a lot of off rhymes. jam, hand..land man....etc.
I think this man was proud to be an American. He repeats over and over I was born in the USA. I also think that once you are a soldier, you are very proud of your country.
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Yeah Bruce Springstein was definitely proud to be an American. His songs always seem to have a lot of power to them. I can see you really connected this song with things going on today which is great.
ReplyDeleteI believe that a soldier loves his country, yes, but his country also screws him over. It happened to my brother when he got out of the army, it happened to many coming home from previous wars. He is definitely proud, but also a little resentful about how we treat soldiers when they get back. We treat them like everyone else, when theyre not.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you connected the song to the present day. I wonder if a lot of soldiers in Iraq can relate to this song.
ReplyDeleteIn order to fight for your country, you would HAVE to be proud of it. Because of people like your great-uncles, we are able to live the life that we live.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like it really would be difficult to come back home from war, especially a war that was so controversial. It would be very difficult to just go back to day-to-day life after the things that one would have experienced in this kind of situation.
Great job linking together not only things of today, but your own family's experiences.
I agree that he is proud to be an American, but I think Springsteen is saying more than that. He is critiquing the Vietnam war and how he was forced into it and the after effects of the war.
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