Born on the Fourth of July1989

Ron Kovic:
What are we gonna do now?

Charlie:
F*** 'em.

Ron Kovic:
Yeah. Sure. How are we gonna get outta here?

Charlie:
F*** 'em all. F*** the whores. F*** the cab drivers... f*** Mexico. F*** Nixon, f*** Vietnam, f***'em all.

Ron Kovic:
Yeah, Charlie, but how are we gonna get outta here?

Charlie:
They made me kill babies, man. Little gook babies. You ever have to kill a baby?

Ron Kovic:
Yeah, O.K. come on, we gotta get back to the villa.

Charlie:
F*** YOU! [drawing closer]

Ron Kovic:
Gotta get back to the villa.

Charlie:
What do you mean "ok"?! What do you mean "ok"? You ever have to kill a baby, you ever have to kill a little gook baby?!!

Ron Kovic:
What the f*** do you know what I did!! [wheels away]

Charlie:
I didn't think so. I didn't think so, you're full of sh*t.

Ron Kovic:
No, you are! The f***? Leave me the f*** alone. You're nuts, you know that? You're nuts. The f***in sun is goin' down! what do you know what the f*** comes out here at night? We gotta get outta here.

Charlie:
Don't sh*t me, Kovic. [again drawing closer] You never killed a baby. You never HAD to kill a baby because... you never put your soul into that war. You never put your soul on the line, man!

Ron Kovic:
How do you know? How the f*** do you know? maybe I killed babies. Maybe I killed more babies than you did, you F***! Maybe I killed a whole bunch' a babies, but I don't talk about it! I don't have to talk about it.(wheels away)

Charlie:
Why not? Wh-Why the f*** not? What do you think you are- better than anybody else? You a hero is that it?

Ron Kovic:
F*** you!

Charlie:
Maybe you got a whole bunch'a f***in' medals, but deep down you know you're full of sh*t. You never fought that war. YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE, MAN!

Ron Kovic:
(Stops. Turns back, enraged) What the f*** did you mean "I wasn't there", man? What did you mean?

Charlie:
What the f*** are you hidin' from?

Ron Kovic:
I'm not the one that's hidin'. You're the one that's hidin'- down here in Mexico- you're the one that's hidin'! What are you hidin' from you whiny f***!

Charlie:
Don't sh*t me. You never killed anybody or anything, did ya, Kovic? Did ya?

Ron Kovic:
Did you?!

Charlie:
DID YA?!!!

Ron Kovic:
Did you?!

Charlie:
Ya ever look at yourself in the f***in' mirror?

Ron Kovic:
Did you?

Charlie:
F*** you.

Ron Kovic:
You.

Charlie:
No. You! F*** YOU!!!

Ron Kovic:
No, F*** YOU!!