“I always pictured myself limping back to my hometown in Massapequa, Long Island, and all the girls running up to me and hugging me and kissing me, so <<Ron you’re a great hero>>, and getting into the Cadillac and being cheered, and the mayor of Massapequa pinning a medal on my chest, but never once, Bill, did I ever think for a moment that I would come back from that war without a body, a living dead man” (Ron Kovic)
“I always pictured myself limping back to my hometown in Massapequa, Long Island, and all the girls running up to me and hugging me and kissing me, so <<Ron you’re a great hero>>, and getting into the Cadillac and being cheered, and the mayor of Massapequa pinning a medal on my chest, but never once, Bill, did I ever think for a moment that I would come back from that war without a body, a living dead man” (Ron Kovic)