"Born in the USA", the song, was wrongly used by Reagan as a campaign anthem.  RR completely missed the message the song had, namely, the disaffection and disasocciation Viet-Nam veterans feel.  The lines: "I got nowhere to run, I got nowhere to go" have nothing to do with rah rah patriotism (sorry RR), and everything to do with a generation born, and lost, in the USA.  It is a song about quiet desperation.  We went off to war, and were forgotten.  I don't know about other veterans, but it did a lot to help me get past it all, and move on.  The video, showing maimed and wounded vets getting on with their lives, was very poignant, at least to me.