Ron KovicRon Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic was the coscreenwriter of the 1989 Academy Award-winning ilm based on Kovic's best-selling memoir Born on the Fourth of July (starring Tom Cruise as Kovic). Read More Read Less