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Born on the Fourth of July
Autobiography by Ron Kovic, 1976
Film directed by Oliver Stone, 1989
Volunteering for service in the Marines in 1968, Ron Kovic was a naïve teen who survived the Vietnam War and American indifference to its veterans to become a renowned and controversial veterans’ activist. ...
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- Tailhook Convention
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