"Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as...

[Catch22Dem]

his old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face!"

I love this line from Billy Joel's "Allentown." The whole song tells such a story. I drove through Allentown in the late 80s. It was like a ghost town in lots of areas.

[Va Lefty]

1. My Hometown

Springsteen--"Foreman says these jobs are leaving and mister they ain't coming back. To my Hometown."
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