Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop bei…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2010). Breakfast Of Champions, p.85, Random House
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