This was an extremely powerful book. Ron Kovic is very able to get his point accross to the reader. He brings you throughout his life showing you, no. . . showing cannot describe the feeling adequately enough. He puts you into his life, when he goes through the trenches, you go with him. When he hits a home run for little league you can experience, not the joy it brought him at the time, but the pain …showed first 75 words of 1626 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1626 total…you of it's existence. This is not a fictional character that you can write off, this is not just a story. This man exists and he let's you know he it. This is one of the best written books I have ever read and, were it not so unsettling, I would read it again and again. But it is definitely one of those books that everyone should read at least once in their life time.