Peace Is Silent

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As a P.O.W. from the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Kurt Vonnegut, who died April 11, 2007 from a head injury, survived the the fire bombing of Dresden, Germany, which killed more people than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

He was born on Nov. 11, 1922 and mentioned in "Breakfast of Champions" that Nov. 11 used to be called Armistice Day, when the people from each of the 32 nations that fought in World War I wouldbe silent on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month each year because in that minute in 1918: "millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another."

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