The Bombing of Dresden in Chapter 8

     In chapter eight, a barbershop quartet sang a song about old friendship.  The experience of watching them shook Billy and negatively effected him.  Billy later found an association with an experience he had long ago when "he was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed.  There were sounds like giant footsteps above.  Those were sticks of high-explosive bombs.  The giants walked and walked."  He continued on talking about how they were in a safe shelter, but everyone else was dead.  Billy described Dresden as one big flame.  Later the next day, Dresden looked like the moon with nothing but minerals. The guards "drew together instinctively, rolled their eyes.  They experimented with one expression and then another, said nothing, though their mouths were often open.  They looked like a silent film of a barbershop quartet."
     Below, I found a great video on YouTube of the Dresden bombing.  The descriptions Vonnegut uses in the book about the bombing are right on point.  I could not imagine living through this and walking outside the next day.