By Ron Kovic
"Ron Kovic's memoir is a classic of antiwar literature,"
Howard Zinn
This classic is updated with a new introduction by the author. Ron Kovic
calls on this new generation to stop the U.S. war in Iraq, "...I have
watched in horror the mirror image of another Vietnam unfolding. So many
similarities, so many things said that remind me of that war thirty years ago
that left me paralyzed for the rest of my life."
Ron Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War as a Marine Corps
sargeant. He was paralyzed from the chest down in combat in Vietnam on January
20, 1968, and has been in a wheelchair ever since. He is an accomplished author
and painter, and a tireless advocate for peace. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic
was co-screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film Born on the Fourth of
July (starring Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic), based on the book.
Read this book, give this book to your friends, to youth being hounded and
lied to by military recruiters. And make as a companion gift to this, "We
Won't Go! A Guide to Resistance." There's no better gift for our
youth, our loved ones, than the truth and a guide to resistance!
2005 edition, Akashic Books, 1976 original edition-McGraw Hill, softcover,
216pp
