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
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Approximate Word count = 897
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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