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  • What do you have to say?

  • My name's Ron Kovic.

  • I'm a Vietnam veteran.

  • I'm here to say this war is wrong,

  • that this society lied to me and my brothers...

  • Why don't you shut up?

  • It deceived the people in this country.

  • It tricked them into going 1 3,000 miles

  • to fight a war against a poor peasant people

  • who have a proud history of resistance,

  • who have been struggling for their own independence

  • for 1,000 years-- the Vietnamese people.

  • I can't--I can't find the words to express

  • how the leadership of this government sickens me.

  • Now, people say...

  • people say if you don't love America,

  • then get the hell out.

  • Well, I love America,

  • but when it comes to the government,

  • it stops right there.

  • The government is a bunch of corrupt thieves.

  • They are rapists and robbers.

  • We are here to say

  • we don't have to take it anymore.

  • We are here to tell the truth.

  • They're killing our brothers in Vietnam.

  • We want them to hear the truth.

  • Traitor!

  • What are you, a Communist?

  • Is this what we get,

  • spit in the face?

  • Is this what we get?

  • Is this what we get, spit in the face?

  • We're never going to let the people

  • forget that war!

  • Four more years!

  • You're not sweeping it under the rug

  • because you didn't like the ratings.

  • This wheelchair,

  • our wheelchairs,

  • this steel, our steel

  • is your Memorial Day on wheels.

  • We're your Yankee-Doodle Dandy come home.

  • We're your Yankee-Doodle Dandy.

  • Let's reject any philosophy

  • that would make us a divided people of America.

  • Stop the bombing! Stop the war!

  • Stop the bombing! Stop the war!

  • Stop the bombing! Stop the war!

  • Some sort of scuffle

  • has broken out on the convention floor,

  • disabled veterans protesting the Vietnam War.

  • We'll try to get down there.

  • Why are they gassing us in the parking lot?

  • Why are they fighting us?

  • Because it's a lie.

  • The truth is they've killed a generation of young men.

  • They have sacrificed

  • a whole generation of young men.

  • Stop the bombing!

  • Stop the bombing!

  • Communists!

  • Communists!

  • Stop the bombing!

  • Stop the war!

  • Stop the bombing! Stop the war!

  • Traitor! Go home!

  • I say to you tonight...

  • in these times,

  • when there is so much of a tendency

  • to run down those who have served America

  • in the past and today,

  • let's give those who have served in Vietnam

  • the honor and the respect

  • that they deserve and that they've earned.

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