Through the novel, Vonnegut rapidly uses so it goes to signify the immense death tolls associated amount of modern warfare. The term implies that death and war are part of one big circle: life, death, and revenge. When he returned to war from furlough, his “regiment was in the process of being destroyed by the Germans in the famous Battle of the Bulge” (32). In the battle “the American losses were serious, 62,439 casualties in all categories and about half lost as killed or captured” (Bulge). The war was so disrupting to him that he has to use tralfamadorians to help cope with his PTSD. He goes through time travels and flashbacks to when he was in the war. As being captured in Dresden, He worked in the POW compound and his role in the war
