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Ron Kovic
Ronald Lawrence "Ron" Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist and writer who was a United States Marine Corps sergeant that was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir ''Born on the Fourth of July'' in 1976, which was made into an Academy Award–winning film in 1989 directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic.
Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, exactly 22 years to the day he was wounded in Vietnam, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Bruce Springsteen wrote the song "Shut Out the Light" after reading Kovic's memoir and then meeting him. Tom Paxton, the folk singer/political activist, wrote the song "Born on the Fourth of July", which is on his 1977 ''New Songs from the Briarpatch'' album, and met Kovic backstage at the Bottom Line Club in New York City the same year. Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda has stated that Ron Kovic's story was the inspiration for the 1978 Vietnam War film ''Coming Home'' that she starred in.
==Early life==
Kovic was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, the second eldest of the six children 〔 http://www.heroism.org/class/1970/kovic.html 〕 of Patricia (Lamb) and Eli Kovic.〔()〕 He was raised in Massapequa, New York, in a Roman Catholic household. His father of Croatian descent served honorably in the United States Navy during World War Two. After the war Eli Kovic and his family moved to Levitown, New York where he worked as a grocery clerk in an A&P food store.,〔 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468407/bio, 〕 His mother also served in the United States Navy during the Second World War having enlisted not long after Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. It is where she met his father. She was of Irish ancestry, and a housewife. In high school, Ron Kovic was a wrestler and pole vaulter, and hoped to be a major league baseball player after graduation. 〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468407/bio 〕
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