To face in person, so thank you for tuning in and obviously doubledip honored that youve agreed to speak with me tonight about the book ron kovic. Right. Not kovac. We were introduced by tom come sport media writer years ago. Ron has been very encouraging and helped quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and a just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, a no hope for as they were called. If the average lifespan was a team is for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was a game changer. The advent of penicillin, sulfur drugs. They had surgical units right behind the battlefield come right behind the front lines and they had better evacuation back to the mainland so by the end of world war ii you had a cohort of about 2500 u. S. Veterans were paral
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