Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation Springsteen by 1981 had come to his position the Vietnam War (in which he did not serve because of a 4-F status) and its veterans after reading Kovics’ Born on the Fourth of July and remembering his friend drummer Bart Hanes (Marsh 309). Jon Landau found VVA and its president, Bob Muller for Springsteen, who hit it off with Mueller and ended up doing a benefit for VVA on august 20, 1981. Marsh quotes Muller to claim that “without Bruce and that evening, we would not have made it” (in Marsh, 310). Marsh emphasizes how Springsteen changed the VVA; Guterson emphasizes how doing that concert, and experiencing Vietnam Veterans, changed Bruce (130). Muller claims to this day that Springsteen was instrumental in keeping the organization, now the Veterans for America Foundation, alive and also claims to be the “cool rockin ‘ daddy” in “Born in the USA” (VFA).