Born on the Fourth of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic, born on 4th of July in Massapequa, New York and longing to join the army, but his family was against it. However, after graduating from high school, he joins US Marine Corps. Unfortunately, during the war Kovic was exposed to the unheroic horrors of real war, shattering his naive image of wars nobility that he had carried since a child. This makes Kovic came to the conclusion that America is not all that it is made up to be. During and after the Vietnam War, his view of the war and of his country changed dramatically. He was not proud of what he had done in Vietnam and felt nothing but regret. When I was in high school, I had to read Born on Fourth of July and throughout the book,
