Word: kovic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August, 1972, Kovic and many other Vietnam Veterans Against the War arrived in Miami to protest the war and their treatment upon return to this country. On the night of Nixon's acceptance speech; Roger Mudd interviewed Kovic on the Republican convention floor. "If you can't believe the veteran who fought the war and was wounded in the war, who can you believe?" Kovic asked America...
...KOVIC was born on the Fourth of July, 1946. When he was twenty-one, a Vietnamese thirty-caliber slug tore through his right shoulder, blasted through his lung and smashed his spinal cord to pieces...