@mylogic , 4-F was/is the military classification of unfit for military service, and as it applied to Bruce it was because he failed the physical. Cadet Bonespurs, on the other hand, first got 4 educational deferrals (one was when he was attending Wharton’s School For Girls With Bone Spurs in Pa.) and then he got himself medically disqualified. Here is what he said about that subject, “I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels."
As far as My Hometown and Freehold NJ, the subject of geedaddy’s little rant, keep in mind that the Born In The USA album was released in ’84 after nearly four years of Ronnie Ray-Gun’s redistribution of the wealth (upward) program and Freehold was still on a downward course. As Bruce was born in '49 he would have witnessed that track over the course of his youth and at the time the song/album was released. And yes, that post above was from a google, and no, I am not a historian. But to know what Ronnie was doing to the working men & women in the US one didn’t have to be a historian. I actually found work with an overseas company in the middle east at that time to get myself out of the hole I was in, since I didn’t have Bruce’s talent or Freddy Trump for a father.