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)

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.