Paris Of The Middle East
July / August, 2012
War never seems more hellish than when Ron Kovic writes about it. And he told of no greater hell than in his memoir of the Vietnam war, Born on the Fourth of July, excerpted in our July 1976 issue. "I'm in an ambulance now, rushing to someplace," Kovic recounts, describing the immediate aftermath of a firefight that left him paralyzed. "There is a man without any legs, screaming in pain, moaning like a little baby. He is bleeding terribly from the stumps that were once his legs,...
