Ron Kovic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This New York Times bestseller details the author's life story-from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate. Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Includes a new introduction by the author." --
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Language
English
Description
"The book opens with Kovic's never-before-revealed Vietnam diary (July 7, 1967–July 26, 1968). His entries from this period portray a patriotic young soldier with a strong moral and religious conscience. Kovic then recalls his political awakening after his return from Vietnam confined to a wheelchair following his horrific injury. He also chronicles the tremendous guilt he feels over his accidental killing of a fellow Marine while on patrol. This...
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A true story of innocence lost and courage found. Ron Kovic, a young volunteer for the Vietnam War, changed from being a zealous teen to an embittered veteran, paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A film set in the austere beauty of the New Mexico desert where Fr. John Dear, S.J., a peace activist and author/editor of over 20 books on peace and nonviolence, lives atop a mesa some 7 thousand feet into the air and talks about taking the Beatitudes of Jesus Christ and seriously living out the Gospel of nonviolence. And in the distance "the nuclear hellhole of Los Alamos"--FatherJohnDear.org.
