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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Sacred and the Vulgar
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
--Kurt Vonnegut,
Breakfast of Champions
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