Many soldiers who fight in wars do not return in the same mental state as they left. Billy Pilgrim has no top secret war stories during his experience in combat. After the war, Billy has very little to hide. However, what he does have to hide was his knowledge of the damages and the obvious mortality exposed to him during war (Allen par. 17). The men who sign up for wars likely are not certain of exactly what they are signing up for. The soldiers end up seeing damage and destruction to an extent that, hopefully, no normal civillian would ever have to see. The damage caused during Dresden is accurately described in the book when Billy Pilgrim observes that “There was a fire storm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame that ate everything organic, everything that would burn”
Many soldiers who fight in wars do not return in the same mental state as they left. Billy Pilgrim has no top secret war stories during his experience in combat. After the war, Billy has very little to hide. However, what he does have to hide was his knowledge of the damages and the obvious mortality exposed to him during war (Allen par. 17). The men who sign up for wars likely are not certain of exactly what they are signing up for. The soldiers end up seeing damage and destruction to an extent that, hopefully, no normal civillian would ever have to see. The damage caused during Dresden is accurately described in the book when Billy Pilgrim observes that “There was a fire storm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame that ate everything organic, everything that would burn”