text:  You know, but the truth is, Born in the USA was and continues to be a wildly misunderstood song. It's about so many things, so much more than just simple flag waving. So we're going to do a few things on this episode. First, we're going to share a couple of stories about Born in the USA from NPR. I went back into our archives and found the original review that ran in 1984 about the album. That was really fun to hear.