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Here, Vonnegut is introducing the United States of America, the country in which Dwayne and Kilgore live, which is developed but terribly unequal and unjust. Vonnegut has just claimed that the nation’s national anthem is nonsensical “balderdash,” and he suggests that the country’s motto isn’t much better. This quote implies that no one really understands the motto, so it is fitting that it is written in a dead language that people no longer speak. The “undippable flag,” which by law cannot be dipped, or lowered, to any person or thing, commands respect, but Vonnegut implies that the nation doesn’t much…