Chapter 8
"The barbershop quartet sang again. Billy was emotionally racked again. The experience was definitely associated with those four men and not what they sang." (page 175-176)
Like many other soldiers who have seen horrific things in war, Billy was traumatized by what he had seen in Dresden. Only when he had seen the four men of the barbershop quartet did he realized he was traumatized. He remembered the four guards standing with their mouths agape, looking at the desolate Dresden. Many soldiers are like that today. Something in their everyday life will send them back to the war they served in. Most likely sending them back to a memory they never wanted the think of again.
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