Friday, August 3, 2012
Chapter 10 Post 2
After the Dresden bombing Billy and his fellow prisoners are put to the task of digging up the dead bodies. They were everywhere in the rubble and the body count was very high. The had to dig them up and then dispose of them. This reminds me a lot of the after effects of 9/11. After the twin towers fell, fire fighters had to dig through the rubble to find any survivors and the bodies that laid beneath. It is an awful thing that both Billy and the fire fighters had to do, but then again, so were the attacks made on Dresden and New York...
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On that tragic day of September 11, 2001, I know the fire fighters faced multiple hardships in looking for the bodies of their peers. Knowing that they could possibly find someone they know and love dead in the rubble, is heart-breaking. Likewise, Billy had to do the same thing.He had to clean up the mess of his own soldier's dead bodies from the bombing. I cannot even imagine the pain that he felt.
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