Book

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic · 1976

Sequence ladder

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Context1976lived_experience

Appears in

Sex & Religion

What this book knows

A paralyzed veteran's body becomes the site where American mythology, sexual loss, and protest conscience collide and break open.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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trauma-and-survival

I started believing I might not die, I might make it out of there and live and feel and go back home again.
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I had been beaten by the police and arrested twelve times for protesting the war… but I refused to be intimidated.
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embodiment

My penis will never get hard anymore. I didn't even have time to learn how to enjoy it and now it is gone, it is dead.
BFJ-005
That thing, my penis, was getting hard… I felt guilty at first. I actually thought I was committing a sin.
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self-and-identity

No one wants too many people to know how much of him has really died in the war.
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I am the living death the memorial day on wheels I am your yankee doodle dandy your john wayne come home.
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Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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