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THIS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version)--from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War... read more

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First Sentence

THE BLOOD IS still rolling off my flak jacket from the hole in my shoulder and there are bullets cracking into the sand all around me.

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  1. Ron Kovic (Author)
 

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