I'm a Vietnam veteran, I'm here tonight to say, this war is wrong, this government lied to...
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Ron Kovic:
[to reporters]
I'm a Vietnam veteran, I'm here tonight to say, this war is wrong, this government lied to me, lied to my brothers, the people in this country tricked us into going thirteen thousand miles to fight a war against poor peasant people who have a proud history of resistance who have been struggling for their own independence for one thousand years, the Vietnamese people, I can't find the words to express how the leadership of this country sickens me, people say "if you don't love America, then get the hell out," well I love America we love the people of America very much but when it comes to the government it stops right there, the government are a bunch of corrupt thieves, they are rapists and robbers, and we are here to say "we don't have to take it anymore", we are here to tell the truth, they are killing our brothers in Vietnam, this wheelchair, our wheelchairs, this steel, our steel is your Memorial Day on wheels, we are your Yankee Doodle Dandy come home.
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I fought
for my country.
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I'm a Vietnam veteran!
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I fought
for my country!
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Shut the fuck up!
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I should
be treated decent!
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Vietnam don't mean
nothing to me, man,
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or any of these other people.
You got it?
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You can take
your Vietnam
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and shove it up your ass,
you hear?
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No! I don't
need this!
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Hey, you fuck!
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Hey, goddamn you!
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Goddamn it.
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I am a fucking
Vietnam veteran!
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This isn't...
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Marvin!
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Marvin, now!
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Marvin!
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What's up?
What's up?
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Marvin, look!
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Oh, fuck!
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It's off.
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It ain't
going to work.
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Start!
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Washington,
get the doctor.
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Wait a minute.
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OK. Yeah.
All right. I will.
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How you doing, Eddie?
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Let's see what's
wrong with this.
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They tell me if we don't
get this pump working,
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they'll cut my leg off.
I want my leg.
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Do we have another pump?
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It's the only one, Eddie.
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Ron. It's Ron Kovic.
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Sorry, man. Ron.
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You... You are a doctor?
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It's the Vietnam war.
Cutbacks.
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The government's not giving us
the money we need
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to take care
of you guys.
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We're doing our best.
It's really too bad.
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It's not fair.
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I've tried hard
to keep this leg.
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I've been strapped in
this bed for four months
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so I could
keep this leg.
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Maybe I can rig up
a substitute.
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I'll look in the basement
and see what we got.
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You're coming back?
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Soon.
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Let go, Ron.
Let go.
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We really did try
to help Mr. Kovic.
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Aah!
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Susanne, he's here.
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Ronnie's home.
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O.K. Out on 3.
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All right, 1...
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2...
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3.
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Oh, that's great.
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Did you
paint the house, Dad?
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Yeah. I painted it.
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Yellow. It looks good.
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It looks pretty good.
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I got that.
That's all right. Let's go.
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The kids have been
talking about you.
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They can't wait
to see you.
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It's great to be back
in the neighborhood.
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I got it. I got it.
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Everything looks
so different.
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Major.
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Hey, Major.
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Major, you know
who this is?
Clip duration: 199 seconds
Views: 430
Timestamp in movie: 00h 56m 38s
Uploaded: 19 September, 2021
Genres: biography, drama, war
Summary: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
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