Loading ...Ron Kovic is a young American born on July 4, the day the American independence day is celebrated, from a Catholic-style and traditionalist family, and his interests and activities are sports, school and a normal American guy’s life, but with deep American ideals, thus his well known motto "Either you love America or you go away."
In 1967 he decides to volunteer in the Marine Corps and is eager to leave for the Vietnam War, prompted by a spirit of service to his country as his ancestors in the World Wars and the War of Independence but in Vietnam he discovered the cruel reality of a war that does not spare women and children, together with remorse for mistakenly killing of the soldier Wilson, which occurred as a result of a fast retreat, and himself losing ability to use the lower-half of his body.
Breakdown
Returning home he starts drinking and fighting harder and harder to have a normal life but finds that co-existence is impossible, to the point that he decides to leave home to go to Villa Dulce, a place beyond the border of Mexico where he lives a community of veterans who turns out to be a place where children live a miserable existence, slowly drowning in drugs and mezcal , and, after a furious argument with one of the guests, he decided to return to America to work to ensure that other young people like him do not suffer because of war.
Outside the house is chaos and the veterans are charged and beaten by police, and even Ron, despite being paralyzed, suffered the attack of the agents, the bruised and wounded veterans try to reorganize and Ron, in spite of the wounds and the concussion he suffered struggled to complete a book counting his experiences.