All the more impressive that he turned out the way he did. "Vonnegut definitely had survived a lot. His once wealthy family was impoverished by the Great Depre

All the more impressive that he turned out the way he did. "Vonnegut definitely had survived a lot. His once wealthy family was impoverished by the Great Depression, causing grim strains in his parents' marriage. His mother committed suicide. His beloved sister died of breast cancer, a day after her husband was killed in a train accident. But the defining horror of Vonnegut's life was his wartime experience and surviving the Dresden bombing, only to be sent into the ruins as prison labour in order to collect and burn the corpses." From: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-biography https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-... Not exactly a life made in a bed of roses, to put it mildly. I realize he's not perfect, but then again, neither am I and probably neither are you, shooting your arrows from behind comfy anonymity.