The land I love
Bruce Springsteen writes a majority of his songs about prolific times in the great American past, which most Americans have vowed to forget. He stresses the importance of the mindset we must have as Americans, throughout harsh and painful times we inevitably endure. Not many people find comfort in reminiscing about the many innocents killed in Vietnam or the souls destroyed by racial profiling in the race riots of the 1960s. In Born in the U.S.A, No Surrender, and My Hometown, Springsteen engages the listener in a patriotic mode, and makes us Americans, proud to be who we are. Vietnam was a War in America that many want to forget. It was a war plagued by unexplained deaths and fought by innocent and mentally unprepared civilians "Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand, Sent me off to a foreign land to go kill the yellow man." Many suffered extreme losses "Had a brother Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong, They're still there he's all gone." Springsteen knew Americans needed a sense of patriotism when discussing times of negativity, such as Vietnam. Throughout Born in the U.S.A Springsteen reaches out to his listeners, because both he and us were "Born in the U.S.A". Us Americans need to feel as if we are
In Springsteen's No Surrender references are made to Vietnam War, yet Springsteen forces Americans once again, to feel patriotic. "Tonight I can hear the neighborhood drummer sound, I can feel my heart begin to pound." Drum rolls are necessary in funerals of those who die serving our country. He recognizes Americans feel our situation in Vietnam is worthless, and recognizes many of the soldiers are indeed tired and scared, yet Springsteen lets them remember "We made a promise we swore we'd always remember, no retreat no surrender." Soldiers recounts of war often include recaps of friends legs being blown off and snipers picking off members of their regiments while scoping out the nearby village. As the war ended, soldiers needed happier thoughts to raise the moral and give them a sense of hope, "I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies, in my lover's bed with a wide open country, in my eyes and these romantic dreams in, my head." A sense of patriotism must be part of every American's lives. Springsteen only helps us to remember our moral duty to the nation through negative aspects of our country. The same as many Americans feel the need to have a sense of patriotism now, as we have begun a war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Instead, we need to have this sense of Patriotism at all times, even when our economy is booming
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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