During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last wor…

Kurt Vonnegut
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). Hocus Pocus, p.9, Random House
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