Born on the Fourth of July: Ron is shot (HD CLIP)

What’s happening in this Born on the Fourth of July movie clip? During Kovic's second Vietnam tour, the platoon goes out on another hazardous patrol on January 20. During a firefight, Kovic is critically wounded, shot first through the ankle and then through the chest, smashing his spine. He lays trapped in a field facing certain death, until a fellow Marine rescues him. Rent or buy Born on the Fourth of July here: What’s the Born on the Fourth of July movie about? Ron Kovic is (Tom Cruise from The Firm and Vanilla Sky) a good kid whose patriotism takes him to Vietnam in the late 1960s and brings him back home paralyzed from the chest down and burdened with the guilt of having accidentally killed a fellow soldier in combat. Living at home with his parents, Ron struggles fiercely with these challenges against the exacerbating background of his culture’s anti-war and anti-vet sentiments. Things get bad for him, he gets very angry and leaves home for Mexico to for