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" Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Wonder
Stop
Sometimes
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" I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. "
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