April 30 (UPI) -- Bruce Springsteen says writing and performing "Born in the U.S.A." helped him reconcile the mixed feelings he has about decisions he made during the Viet Nam War era.
"I had some friends, very close friends of mine... guys who came home in wheelchairs and, then, I didn't go. I was a stone-cold draft dodger," the New Jersey rocker said at a Tribeca Film Festival conversation with Tom Hanks at the Beacon Theatre in New York Friday.