Kurt Vonnegut: "Para ayah selalu sangat bangga ketika pertama kali mer...

"Para ayah selalu sangat bangga ketika pertama kali mereka melihat putra mereka berseragam, "katanya." Aku tahu Big John Karpinski, "kataku. Dia tetangga saya di utara, tentu saja. SMA, dan polisi menangkapnya sedang menjual obat bius. Jadi dia bergabung dengan Angkatan Darat ketika Perang Vietnam sedang berlangsung. Dan pertama kali dia pulang dengan mengenakan seragam, aku tidak pernah melihat Big John begitu bahagia, karena sepertinya dia tampak seperti Little. John semua diluruskan dan akan berjumlah sesuatu, tetapi kemudian Little John pulang dengan kantong mayat."

--- Kurt Vonnegut

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Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.