Ron Kovic — American Activist born on July 04, 1946,
Ronald Lawrence "Ron" Kovic is an American anti-war activist and writer who was a United States Marine Corps sergeant that was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July in 1976, which was made into an Academy Award–winning film in 1989 directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic... (wikipedia)