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Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 9, Section 5
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Chapter 9, Section 5
- Among the books Lily brings Rumfoord is The Destruction of Dresden, by David Irving.
- In it, Ira C. Eakerz, an Air Force General, makes a case for the necessity of firebombing Dresden.
- British Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby writes that it was not necessary, but that it happened, as these things sometimes do in wartime. What is immoral is war itself.
- Billy mutters about Cody, Wyoming, and Wild Bob in his sleep.
- Lily shudders.
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- Billy Pilgrim
- The Narrator
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- Bertram Copeland Rumfoord
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