“I always pictured myself limping back to my hometown in Massapequa, Long Island, and all the girls running up to me and hugging me and kissing me, so <<Ron you’re a great hero>>, and getting into the Cadillac and being cheered, and the mayor of Massapequa pinning a medal on my chest, but never once, Bill, did I ever think for a moment that I would come back from that war without a body, a living dead man” (Ron Kovic)