Ron Kovic

Ronald Lawrence Kovic born July 4 1946 is an American antiwar activist author and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the film of the same name which starred actor Tom Cruise as Kovic and was cowritten by Kovic and directed by Oliver Stone Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20 1990 22 years to the day that he was wounded in Vietnam and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Kovic licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia