Hurricane Street. Ron Kovic
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Table of Contents
The Patients’/Workers’ Rights Committee
The Threats and Intimidation Continue
Excerpt: Born on the Fourth of July
for TerriAnn Ferren
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan . . . —President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
This is the story of a few brave men who, though severely wounded in war, returned home to fight a different battle.
Introduction
Over forty years have now passed since that day in 1974 when we first entered the office of Senator Alan M. Cranston of California and began a sit-in which would quickly escalate into a hunger strike and touch the nation. Hurricane Street is a work of both memory and