"Interviewer: You are a veteran of the Second World War?Vonnegut: Yes. I want a military funeral when I die--the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.
Interviewer: Why?
Vonnegut: It will be a way of acheiving what I've always wanted more than anything--something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.
Interviewer: Which is--?
Vonnegut: The unqualified approval of my community.
Interviewer: You don't feel you have that now?
Vonnegut: My relatives say that they are glad I'm rich, but that they simply cannot read me."
--From Vonnegut's 1977 self-interview with the Paris Review, reprinted in Palm Sunday, 1981
New York Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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