"'It was like the moon,' said Billy Pilgrim." Page 179
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the moon. We've all seen it, right? Well take a look behind this astronaut. What do you see? Nothing? Correct. Now try for a minute to imagine this kind of environment on Earth. After Dresden was bombed, Billy describes it looking like the moon, plus some ruins of buildings. The firestorm killed every single person and living organism that wasn't protected by some sort of shelter. Desolation beyond recognition from the firepower dropped on the city. I think that the only thing more amazing than the appearance of the place would have been that anybody was able to survive it. Billy was lucky, to say the least.
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