Did you know?; chpt 9 prompt #5

This entire book has many moments that are moving but this chapter in particular was the most emotional for me. One of the characters goes on to recall many other bombings such as Hiroshima and the number of people who died from them. I thought this was interesting and moving because less people died from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima then did from the firebombing of Dresden, yet many people don't know this. "The thing was though, there was almost nothing in the twenty-seven volumes about the Dresden raid, even though it had been such a howling success. The extent of the success had been kept a secret for many years after the war--a secret from the American people." This was emotional because in the book we can see how greatly this effected Billy and how messed up he became after it and yet millions of people had no idea of the extent of the damage that was done or even that the firebombing occurred.