Fortunate Son was pretty popular among my fellow combat infantrymen in Vietnam in 1970-1971. They identified with it and considered it a pretty accurate description of their lot in life. I was one of those military sons mentioned in the song, but since I was out there with the line doggies and not in some cushy job inside the wire, it apparently didn’t apply to me.
I’d love to hear from other combat infantrymen about what they think. My own opinion is that this is a bunch of bunk.
I can see your point about soldiers who were drafted and fought during Vietnam while some got a pass. That’s not the case with the military of this era. I, for one, would not bother to watch anything about ‘valor’ from HBO which included Springsteen or M&M. Anyone who could not see what that was going to be about are about as astute as Obama voters.
Springsteen is a communist skunk, plain and simple.