Word: kovic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Medical difficulties forced author Ron Kovic to cancel his scheduled Class Day speech yesterday...
Late Tuesday night Kovic informed the 1990 Class Committee through a spokesperson that he was too ill to make the six-hour airplane trip from Los Angeles to Boston. Kovic is a parapalegic, having been wounded while fighting in the Vietnam War with the Marines...
...chronic condition that flares up occassionally" kept Kovic from coming to Harvard, according to spokesperson Ellie Dugan. The stress of travel likely would have forced Kovic to be hospitalized upon his arrival in Boston. Dugan added that Kovic's condition is related to injuries he sustained while in Vietnam...
...Kovic wrote Born on the Fourth of July, a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in Vietnam and of his return home. The book, later adapted as an award-winning movie, charts the change in Kovic's attitude toward American society and illustrates how a gung-ho patriot transforms himself into a passionate protester for peace...
Most seniors did not know that Kovic would not speak until Radcliffe First Marshal Jennifer E. Brumage made an announcement during her welcoming address...