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01629aam a22003254i 4500 001 45FB65B64E3F11E6AB808AAFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160720010032 008 151023t20162016nyua r 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2015954057 020 $a 1617754498 020 $a 9781617754494 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d JPL $d CLE $d FM0 $d BKL $d IK2 $d E3V $d SKYRV $d SILO 050 4 $a UB369 $b .K68 2016 082 04 $a 959.70438 $2 23 100 1 $a Kovic, Ron. 245 10 $a Hurricane Street / $c Ron Kovic. 264 1 $a [Brooklyn, New York] : $b Akashic Books, $c [2016] 300 $a 238 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a The hospital -- The strike -- The aftermath. 520 $a In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. 600 10 $a Kovic, Ron. 610 10 $a United States. $b Veterans Administration. 650 0 $a Veterans $x Medical care $z United States. 650 0 $a Veterans $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Medicine, Military. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Veterans $z United States $v Personal narratives. 941 $a 1 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20210304015311.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=45FB65B64E3F11E6AB808AAFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search