After fleeing the party, finding his son sitting on the toilet with an electric guitar, and finally retreating to his bedroom, Pilgrim begins to think about an experience that he had some time ago. The Four-Eyed Bastards and their music reminded him of the night Dresden was destroyed. “The guards instinctively approached, rolled their eyes. They experimented with one expression and then another, without saying anything, even though their mouths were often open. They looked like a silent film about a quartet of barbers” (Vonnegut, 178). The guards he is referring to are the ones who held him and many other American soldiers hostage in the cold storage facility in Dresden. The pilgrim saw them feeling the loss of their fellow soldiers, families and friends. They could almost sing “That Old Gang of Mine,” while looking at the ruins of the city. Pilgrim was so impressed, because it had apparently never occurred to him that war affects your enemies and your friends. He felt the same resentment again and the same acceptance that this is what war would always be, and that war would always be. In this passage, Vonnegut uses music to help Billy Pilgrim realize that war affects everyone. Its effects reach far and wide and can be devastating. An entire city is wiped off the map, once again,