Vonnegut: Would you object if society sought equality not by handicapping the gifted but by lifting up the not-gifted? from w w w s s s com Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 85 sec
✓ Published: 06-Mar-2012

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born and raised in Indianapolis and later left college to enlist in the U.S. Army during World War II. He spent time as a German prisoner of war and won a Purple Heart, a distinction he later mocked. After the war, he worked as a newspaper reporter and in public relations before selling his first story to Collier’s magazine in 1950. Shortly thereafter he quit his regular job and embarked on a literary career, taking part-time jobs to pay the bills. Only with