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362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)

The History of Literature

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Why We Have So Many Wars

Vonegat was 22 when he went to war. His mother killed herself on mother's day, no less. A six months later, he was in germany fighting in what was one of the greatest defeats for american military,. The battle of the bulge. And and vonegat was one of those guys that was captured, and he became a prisoner of war. Do we know if he was anti war before he went, or had he been a pacifist?

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