Vietnam Veterans of America received critical early support from the legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen. In the summer of 1981, when the VVA organization, which was just three years old at the time, was having financial difficulties.

Springsteen donated all the money from his sold-out August 20 performance (the first of six at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena).

Did Bruce Springsteen serve in the Vietnam War?

No, when Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the US Army at the age of 19 to fight for his nation in the Vietnam War, he faced his mortality in the mirror. He devised a cunning scheme to avoid duty, but he just couldn’t bring himself to go.

For the rest of his life, Springsteen has had to deal with the consequences of his deeds.

He has repeatedly expressed his sorrow about the possibility that someone else’s action led to someone else being conscripted in his place and dying valiantly for their country while he was back in New Jersey trying to make it as a singer-songwriter.

The Boss had buddies fighting on the other side of the world while he was playing dive bars.

The majority of the people he knew who served in Vietnam never came home, and those who did were strangers to the young, impressionable, wide-eyed youths who were called up.

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