At Billy's anniversary years after the war had been over, a barbershop quartet was singing a tune. The song sounded suspiciously similar to the bombing of Dresden. Many of the lines described the scene:
"Prayin' for sunshine, 'cause it will rain
Things gettin' worse, drivin' all insane;
Built a nice bar, painted it brown;
Lightning came along and burnt it down..."
The lyrics to this song describe the horror that was the Dresden bombing, but it is written in a jolly song for a barbershop quartet. The "sunshine" never came for the people in Dresden, but they did get a lot of "rain". The "rain" and "lightning" came down in bombs and "burnt" the entire city down. It is no wonder that Billy was so torn up after hearing this song at his anniversary. The memory of the bombing caused Billy to leave the party and have to go to his bedroom to sleep. The bombing was estimated to kill up to 500,000 people, a number that is staggering even today. Billy had the right to be upset at this memory.
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