There are so many powerful scenes from Oliver Stone's greatest film about the Vietnam War, but this smaller scene actually is the most powerful for me, and the most emotional. Ron Kovic, played exceptionally well by Tom Cruise, is finally returning home to his family after having been shot and paralyzed in Vietnam, and after enduring an absolutely disgusting stay in a Bronx hospital. The people in the neighborhood hesitate to approach him, because he is in a wheelchair. His Mom finally arrives outside, and we see the hurt in her eyes. But the real emotion of the scene comes when Kovic and his father arrive back in Kovic's bedroom. Kovic grabs a picture of himself, when he was a wrestler, and he looks down at his legs in the picture, realizing he'll never be able to walk again. Kovic's Dad comes over to his son in the wheelchair, and leans down to hug him. He tells him that he's so glad to have his son back, and this is one of the few film sequences that made me cry, seeing a father hugging his son who's just been paralyzed in the war. The reason it evokes tears is because of how honest the scene is, and there are so many scenes of honesty in this film, as Kovic endures the real hell that lay before him, an America divided, and an America not at all grateful for what he gave up over there in his patriotic effort to serve his country.