Dave Schaafsma’s Reviews > Johnny Got His Gun > Status Update

Because Ukraine and Endless War I had decided to read or reread several anti-war books, and this one I first read in the seventies, when it was carried around by thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters, including me, but this is brutal, not easy to read. Features introductions by a woman whose son was killed in Iraq, and Born on the Fourth of July author Ron Kovic, who was paralyzed from the chest down.