After fleeing the party, finding his son sitting on the toilet with an electric guitar, and finally retreating to his room, Pilgrim begins to reflect on an experience that he he lived. there is time. The Four-Eyed Bastards and their music reminded him of the night Dresden was destroyed. “The guards instinctively moved closer, rolled their eyes. They experimented with one expression then another, saying nothing, even though their mouths were often open. They looked like a silent film of a barbershop quartet” (Vonnegut, 178). The guards he is referring to are the ones who held him and several other American soldiers hostage in the Dresden meat locker. The pilgrims saw them feeling the loss of their fellow soldiers, their families and their friends. They could almost sing “That Old Gang of Mine” while looking at the ruins of the town. Pilgrim was very struck, for it apparently never occurred to him that war affects your enemies and your friends. He again felt the same resentment and acceptance that this is what war would always be, and war would always be. In this passage, Vonnegut uses music to help Billy Pilgrim realize that war affects everyone. Its effects are far-reaching and can be devastating. An entire city is wiped off the map, and once again,