Of course I found a quilt on my birthday trip! We went to the Kurt Vonnegut museum (which was soooo cool, if you live around Indy it’s worth the trip) and this beauty was hanging in the stairwell!

Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times.

Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

War Webweave

The Pacific E1 // Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut // Band of Brothers // M*A*S*H S2E10 The Sniper // The Pacific E5 // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // The Pacific E6 // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // Band of Brothers E7 The Breaking Point // M*A*S*H S1E17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet // Masters of the Air E2 // War Isn't Murder-Jesse Welles // Saving Private Ryan // M*A*S*H S5E20 The Generals Practitioner // The Pacific E9 // Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut // Band of Brothers E5 Crossroads // M*A*S*H S1E16 The Yankee Doodle Doctor // Saving Private Ryan

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