Talk:Ron Kovic

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1 Born on the 4th of July comment
2 Is Kovic actually Ković (english: Kovich)?
3 Removed line on soviet invasion of afghanistan
4 1972 Democratic Convention speech

[edit] Born on the 4th of July comment

The following comment was removed because it had no real relevancy to Kovic's basic biography and is only a claim and not fact:

Ron Kovic claims he was spat on by a Republican delegate after disrupting President Richard M. Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1972 Republican National Convention. (Born on the Fourth of July, p. 181.)

If this act was even a fact it only appears as a partisan attack on some unknown person at a political convention to which he was not even invited. Even if it were fact, it's an arbitrary comment that lacks cohesion to the rest of the article. Jtpaladin 00:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is Kovic actually Ković (english: Kovich)?

Does anyone know? Did he ever talked about it? I just watched the movie and I am wondering what is the origin of his surname, it sounds to me like typical Croatian surname misspelled like most Croatian surnamed do in English. --Factanista 00:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed line on soviet invasion of afghanistan

I removed the line: "Curiously enough he has never protested the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan." Since it didn't fit within the flow of the article, had no relevance (the paragraph was discussing his involvement in the Iraq war, and the article doesn't discuss ALL of his anti ware protests so the sentence is out of place), and doesn't offer any useful information-- IE, did he support the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, did he oppose it but not speak out, did he not care, etc.

He never said boo either when Kosovo was bombed! Where was he then??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChevyNazi (talk • contribs) 16:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)