Born of the Fourth of July
The narrator gets wounded in the war of Vietnam. There are many wounded soldiers around him but he gets rescued by a black man. All the injured man get loaded in amtracs that drive them into different war camps (hospitals).There he gets operated because he can't move his legs. All the others around him are screaming, because they have to suffer incredible pains. One day before they left Vietnam forever a general arrives in the camp and hands a Purple Heart over to everyone, in the name of the president. After that he leaves Vietnam with a plane.He comes into the St. Alban Naval hospital in Queens together with the others. It was the first time they could laught. His therapy starts. He is working very hard. He lifts weight every day, but his fight against the wheelchair has just begun. He moves into a new hospital, which is completely different. He feels totally desperate, because he notices that he will never be able to go to the toilet or to have sex and he can't to sports anymore. He never tells the family about that, but he trains very hard every day and within the help of the new machines he will learn walking again. Jimmy and Dick the two therapists are suppoting him. Ron c
Then a cap-driver stopped and asked him if he would needed a woman. There were just two sergeants and eighty boys, who wanted to become marines. He even delivered speeches and demonstrated against the president of the United States. Through his injury, which made him paralyzed from the chest down Ron Kovic had to start a new life. One day he went to a Vietnam veteran meeting in L. All these things together hurt him very much. Sometimes he got very desperate because he couldn't do sports anymore. He began to train very hard to eliminate his real enemy, his injury. So that's why he inlisted, to become a marine. Then Ron took the next plane home to New York. hospital where he met a marriage counselor for paralyzed men. It was his dream to fight for Amerika and to become a great hero, of whom many generations would talk. He had to carry a cateder with him that collected his urine.
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