Analysis Of Bruce Springsteen's Rock Song Born In The USA

Bruce Springsteen released his rock song Born In The U.S.A. on July 4, 1984. Springsteen was hoping to convey the message that there will always be people out there who mistreat others no matter how hard they have worked in life. Born In The U.S.A. talks about a man who was sent to fight in a war in which he didn't believe in. That being the Vietnam war, and it shows the conflict that was involved with being sent "off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man." That line, "the yellow man," is almost certainly referring to the enemy soldiers that were being sent off to fight, and of course the racist nature itself. Once he and the rest of the others returned home after this war, they are all broke and desperate for jobs. The man is turned away from the refinery, so he goes to his local V.A. branch, where he is then turned away yet again.
After everything these men went through, you would expect a warm heroes welcoming from the people they kept safe, but really all they got was the exact opposite. The amount of hate that was thrown at these men affected them physically and emotionally because people protested the war to the point where jobs wouldn't even hire a vet because they fought in a war in which they didn't choose.

Born In The U.S.A. definitely gives off a lot of mixed emotions because it tells the sad and rough story of where and how he grew up and then it jumps forward to how Vietnam forced our country into fighting a war that we didn't start. It's all very hard to think about because once the soldiers returned home, these men were being called horrible names and people were doing terrible nasty things to them. People mistreated these soldiers all because they were trying to save the lives of themselves and others and protect their people from the enemy that they had no control