Vonnegut's letter home

Kurt Vonnegut was famously formed by his experiences during World War II, especially his presence at the fire-bombing of Dresden. Presumably one of the first times he talked about it was in his first letter home after his repatriation from POW status.

The letter is at Letters of Note. I've seen KV more eloquent and more detailed on the subject, but there's something about the immediacy of this that just hits home. I wonder if there's still some of what might be called mental shock at the time. It takes a long time for the human mind to process genocide.

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