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...Viet Nam has brought forth excellent work: Ron Glasser's 365 Days, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Phil Caputo's A Rumor of War. Now, more veterans seem to be emerging from their long, isolated silence. They have recorded their memories of the war in two new oral histories: Al Santoli's Everything We Had and Mark Baker's Nam. A group of actors led by Tom Bird have formed the Veterans Experience Theater Company in New York City...
...hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans who fought in Viet Nam responded when their country asked them to give up their freedom and possibly their lives to do violence in the name of something the Government deemed right. Veteran Ron Kovic's painful book Bom on the Fourth of July described how the image of John Wayne unreeling in the adolescent mind functioned as recruiting poster and subliminal role model. In any case, they went. But psychically at least, the country did not want them back...
...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...
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