‘The highest treason’

“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”

—  Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American author, in A Man Without a Country. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, when he was captured by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and then held as a prisoner-of-war in Dresden, Germany. There he survived the devastating firebombing by the British and American air forces in 1945 by hiding in an underground meat locker. His experience led to his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death.

He lived for many years on Cape Cod.