Born On The Fourth Of July

Description for BORON ON THE FOURTH OF JULY by Ron Kovic:

RON KOVIC LOVED BASEBALL, GOD, JOHN WAYNE AND JOHN F. KENNEDY---BUT MOST OF ALL, HE LOVED HIS COUNTRY.

He was a natural athlete, a shy teen-ager who dreamed of girls, an All-American working-class kid. He shipped out to Vietnam with the marines. Ron Kovic didn't come marching home. He was wounded, paralyzed permanently from the chest down. Protesting the war at a rally in Los Angeles, he was shoved from his wheelchair, his medals torn from his chest. This is Ron Kovic's story---a searing, graphic, deeply moving account of a young man whose real war began in the devastating aftermath of Vietnam.