He comes into the St. Alban Naval hospital in Queens together with the others. It was the first time they could laught. His therapy starts. He is working very hard. He lifts weight every day, but his fight against the wheelchair has just begun. He moves into a new hospital, which is completely different. He feels totally desperate, because he notices that he will never be able to go to the toilet or to have sex and he can't to sports anymore. He never tells the family about that, but he trains very hard every day and within the help of the new machines he will learn walking again. Jimmy and Dick the two therapists are suppoting him. Ron c

He always wanted to be a winner that's why he went into the war. But there was an incident at the beginning of his soldier carrier. He shot a corporal. But soon he got the commander of a scout team.

He sees a couple walking along the beach. After that incident he prayes to god that one day he also wants to walk hand in hand with a girl. He is aware of the fact that he wound have children anymore. He can't do things, he did in his youth, but nobody talks about it. They say that sex is just an important thing.

He rent a flat for just 200 dollars a month. But then he had to go to hospital again because his leg was swollen to twice its original size. They put a steel plate in.

Ron Kovic the narrator himself, is the main character in this book. He was a natural athlete, who wanted to play in the New York Yankee's baseball-team. He did nearly every kind of sports. He even fought in the school wrestling-team, and he was one of the best, so that all the other students looked up to him. All in all he was a very shy and religious teenager, who dreamed of girls and becoming a hero, like all the other American students. So that's why he inlisted, to become a marine. At this time he was a very patriotic man, who would have done everything to support his nation in a battle against another country, like Vietnam. When he shipped out to Vietnam everything was like a movie for him. Soon he started being obsessed of the fact that he would become a hero. But his injury, which made him paralyzed permanently from the chest down, completely changed his life. In the first month after the incident he had a strong belief that one day he will be able to walk again. So he trained very hard and went to therapies every day. But soon he recognized that he will be forced to sit in a wheelchair for his whole life and that he can't have sex anymore. He had to carry a cateder with him that collected his urine. All these things together hurt him very much. So he needed somebody, who his responsible for this and this was his home-country, that was responsible for the war in Vietnam. And that's why one day he decided to join anti-war campagnes. There he was together with thousands of other people, which had the same opinion of the war and some of them also got badly injured in the war. So this fact made him feel accepted for the first time in his life. He delivered several speeches, in which he tried to convince as many other people as he could, to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam. But all this marches made him a bit confuse. As a result of this he couldn't manage to marry a woman he really loved. He had to move in a small house alone because he couldn't even sleep next to her.

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Approximate Word count = 2855
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)