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Born on the Fourth of July: The Long Journey Home
http://www.alternet.org/world/22181/

The author shares the inspiration behind his classic antiwar memoir: 'I wanted people to know what it really meant to be in a war--to be shot and wounded, to be fighting for my life on the intensive care ward--not the myth we had grown up believing.'
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