The meeting eventually led to a 1981 benefit concert for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and the Mental Health Association in Los Angeles. I told him I just finished the book and felt it was one of the most powerful I ever read.” I wrote a book called Born on the Fourth of July.’ I couldn’t believe it.
One afternoon, he approached me and said, ‘Hi, I’m Ron Kovic. “Over the next few days, I noticed a young man in a wheelchair sitting pool side. “I was still under it’s spell when we pulled into the Sunset Marquis Hotel, a rockers’ hideaway on Alta Loma Road (in West Hollywood),” Springsteen says. In the intro, Springsteen talks about how he had a chance meeting Kovic shortly after reading the book in 1978.
The Boss has recorded an introduction to a new audio version of Ron Kovic’s Vietnam War classic, “Born on the Fourth of July.” The new version “Born on the Fourth of July,” read by voice actor Holter Graham, will be released Monday, July 4 from Amazon's Audible. Now, Springsteen is putting it into words. The plight of Vietnam War veterans has been a reoccurring theme in the music of Bruce Springsteen for more than 30 years. Watch Video: What ever happened to Springsteen's childhood idol?