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Kovic: I'll walk again.Doctor: No you won't --Ron Kovic: No, I know I'll walk again!Doctor: No, let me tell you something, Ron. You will NEVER walk again.in the Bronx VA hospitalRon Kovic: This place is a fuckin' slum!Marvin: You want out of here, man? Fine. glynis johns We take that leg of yours, and we can get you out of here in two weeks!Ron Kovic: I want my leg.Marvin: Why?Ron glynis johns Kovic: I want my leg!Marvin: Why? You can't feel it no how!Ron Kovic: (incredulous and angry) It's my leg! I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's glynis johns I'm sayin' is that I want to be treated like a human being! I fought for my country! I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country!off-cameraRon Kovic: And I think that I deserve to be treated ... decent!Ron is attempting to walk in the hospital; Willie is beside himdrags himself forwardWillie: Man, you're one crazy Marine, Kovic -- so gung-ho and everything, but you don't know shit about what's really happenin' in this country.Ron
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