I remember hearing this song in middle school and I heard it again in class on Tuesday. I don't believe we aren't really free in the USA. It's funny how people really think America is the best place to live and etc but no one actually sees the bigger picture. This not a free country. Everything comes with a price. You still have people that are struggling just to get by and some say school is the key. Yes that maybe but what the expense of school. After all that hard work, might be hard to get a job in the field that you was studying for years. Most people needs to realize not everything is how it seems.
Now the song itself I understand it and the message that it's telling. It's one those songs I rather read it than listen to Bruce Springsteen singing it. There was a few parts of the songs that stuck with me. " I had a brother at Khe Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone" Now automatically I felt what he saying. The people that he and his brother's where sent to kill are still there. He lost his himself and his brothers. Honestly what exactly are we really fighting for? Because this isn't going to stop at all. Their will always be more people to volunteer their life and get killed for nothing in my opinion. They also forced him to get into the army and kill for them. Men or women that comes back from fighting for their lives end up having the mental disorder that is called PTSD our loving country cares so much right ?
This song makes you realize what Born in the U.S.A. is really like.
Vets definitely need mental care when they return back from service
ReplyDeleteI am confused with your argument that just because things come with a price, that means that America is not a free country? Having a free country doesn't mean that individuals get everything for free.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in regard to going to school, the Brookings Institute (a left leaning publication) released a study that gave the three things to do to help get out of poverty. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/
No, America is no longer at the top of the freest countries in the world, but that does not mean that it isn't free at all. America did not invent liberty, but America enshrined into the Constitution that there are certain rights that the government cannot take away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybsZGP0ciE
Also, the reason America went into the Vietnam War was the Domino Effect. Whether or not this was the best decision is questionable, but there was a reason behind the decision. The Domino Effect is a foreign policy theory. The idea is that vulnerable nations will fall, one after the other like dominos, due to communist influence, proximity, and aggression. Here's a video on the Domino Effect if you so choose to watch it. https://youtu.be/EunyfX-Zjo4
DeleteI absolutely agree with you that veterans need more support. They need better access to mental health providers.