Born in the U.S.A.

This is a song that has a lot of mixed emotion within it because he starts out describing where he grew up and fast forwards to how Vietnam forced our country into a war not of our making, yet the servicemen were persecuted spit on and called baby killers for trying to save lives and fight an enemy not of our making as well.

He then expresses how we then have a country turned upside down to where the very country they were there to protect mistreated them no different than if we were foreigners from another country. The kind of crap that was thrown at them emotionally, physically, mental trauma and images they will never forget, "on top of" the crap they got from the very people you would expect a "heroes welcome" instead get the exact opposite, and they pretty much get their lives down the tubes because they protested the war to the point where they would not even hire a vet, because they fought in that war, that was not of their making.

So the song shows the lack of appreciation and mistreatment of those who sacrificed everything to only be mistreated and scorned for serving the very country they were born in. The United States of America.

Hence, "Born in the USA" the very country that bore them and once supported them, turned their backs on them for no reason other than protest against a war not of their choosing.

It is a song of both history, pain, and sorrow for the lack of respect the soldiers who sacrificed for our country only to be screwed over by there fellow man.