Springsteen at a Vets Day concert is an insult no matter what he performed. He was a draft dodger and has never done anything for USO or ever performed overseas for the US military.
Fortunate Son is a great song. It was written and recorded in 1968 when most young men feared the draft and recognized that the elite did not have to shed their blood. I wonder, did anyone there boo Springsteen’s performance?
Robert McNamara’s son never was drafted, never served.
Springsteen has no right to put his stank on anything vet related. Draft dodger.
Fortunate Son on the other hand is a fine song. It offends those who love to cheerlead and enjoy wars as long as they don’t have to participate. Draft or no draft, its aimed at a certain crowd. There isn’t a line in that song that is anti-war.
But it is quite insulting to establishment types left and right who love to send others to fight.
And Fogarty was in the Army Reserve.
“The Weekly Standard described it as an “anti-war screed, taking shots at ‘the red white and blue.’”
Uhmmm no. It is aimed at people like Weekly Standard editors. Red White and Blue people as it were,,, and when the band plays “Hail to the Chief”, they point the cannon at you,,,
Sounds fairly accurate to a grunt,,,
A song about the draft in 2014? Is Bruce really that stupid?
As far as I can tell, ‘Fortunate Son’ is about the kind of military families that produce a lot of generals, senators, and governors.
Some folks are born, made to wave the flag
Ooo, their red, white and blue
And when the band plays “Hail to the Chief”
Ooo, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no
Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand
Lord, don’t they help themselves, y’all
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no
Yeah, yeah
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask ‘em, “How much should we give?”
Ooh, they only answer “More! More! More!”, y’all
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, one
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no, no, no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son, no, no, no
Song has not a single anti war word in it. It simply notes what element of society declines to participate,, except to beat the drum for others. It doesn’t even specifically mention the draft. So it even holds up well in todays wars.
It wont make sense when we see the Bush and Obama daughters in Uniform. Or when grunts snorting coke get the same treatment as Biden’s son.
It even brings to mind Petraeus flying to Paris in a Lear Jet for dinners,, enjoying the fellating of a camp following biographer.
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.
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 think the last line of Born in the USA is, “I’m a tone deaf moron in the USA!” It’s hard to tell with Bruth’s teeth-clenched John McCain singing style.
The pukes at the I Heart Radio stations in Miami are just fawning over the Hate America “artists” who “performed” last night.
Nobody watched it.
Fine day in the heart of Dixie, gun shop owner disses VETERANS! SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR BUSINESS FOOL! DEEDING IT TO YOUR WIFE WON’T SAVE IT!
Alabamian’s anti-veterans rant lands him in serious hot water - Yellowhammer News
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Poster #1 got it right.
Springsteen is no patriot.
So many other fine, patriotic performers available.
Agreed. What Mensa decided inviting that overrated, grimacing tool to perform his third rate bilge for our veterans was a good idea?