Ladysmith is a city and the county seat of Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States, where U.S. Route 8 and Wisconsin Highway 27 meet and cross the Flambeau River. The population was 3,216 at the 2020 ce
Carnegie library, built 1907
Steely-blue chalcocite from the Flambeau Mine
Ronald Lawrence Kovic is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourt
Ladysmith, Wisconsin
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Ron Kovic at an anti-war rally in Los Angeles, California, on October 12, 2007.
Kovic (left) leading other disabled veterans after ending their 17-day hunger strike, March 1974
Kovic at the 62nd Academy Awards, March 26, 1990