# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

> During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Hocus Pocus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/during-my-three

## More from this book

> How embarrassing to be human.

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> Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/just-because-some.md)

> "I wish I had been born a bird instead," he said.
>
> "I wish we had all been born birds instead."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/i-wish-i-had.md)