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Born on the Fourth of July  

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  • 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. Kovic published Born on the Fourth of July, an account of his experiences, in 1976. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Born on the Fourth of July]

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