Johnny Got His Gun remains the most revolutionary, searing document against war and injustice ever written. It says it all, and it tells people what to do. It calls for revolution, for picking up the gun and pointing it in the right direction -not against the poor and the powerless, but against the slime that rule, those "who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler...one man who works kill another man who works...one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live."

Johnny Got His Gun...goes on record for all time as a warning to all governments that would send their young men to war -that their heads will be on the block next time and that no matter how important they think they are, what office they may hold or military rank they may have attained, all the power they have means nothing to us, for if they try to take our sons or harm us with their stupid policies, we will fight back by whatever means necessary?   Ron Kovic, paralyzed Vietnam veteran, in his introduction to Dalton Trumbo's 1991 edition of Johnny Got His Gun