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Billy's First Time Travel
Billy is drafted into the war to fight against the German soldiers. His entire unit was bombed and he was the only survivor. He joined three other soldiers, and they had to go back to their base. Billy's time traveling starts from here. Billy travels back to when his father threw him in the pool, trying to teach him to swim. Billy's father later jumped into the pool to save Billy since he was sinking. -
Captured
Ronald Weary is severely beating Billy, when they stopped fighting the two of them were captured by German Soldiers that had watched them fight the entire time. The Germans stole all of their belongings and escorted them to a Prisoner of War Camp. The POW camp was very nice, it seemed like it was a resort, for the English Prisoners. For the Russian Prisoners the living conditions were far worse. -
Bombing of Dresden
Billy was hiding in a meat locker when the bomb was dropped. He decided to hide in in the meat locker because he said it was thicker than the rest of the bomb shelters. The bomb was dropped by the United States, and everyone within the city was killed except for Billy. -
Billy Meets Trout
Billy first meets Trout in an ally were he is handing out newspapers to younger children in order to make more money. Trout fired a kid and Trout had to do the kids paper route himself. Billy walked up to Trout and helped him with the paper route driving his idle around in his Cadillac. Billy described meeting Trout as being a science fiction writer who also lives in Ilium. -
Mental Hospital
Billy commits himself into a mental hospital from all of the things he has been seeing. In the hospital Billy meets a man named Elliot Rosewater, here he is exposed to Trouts stories and the two of them discuss all of the stories with one another. -
Wedding
Billy was married to Valencia, who was the daughter of a popular optometrist of Ilium. Billy went to college to be an optometrist, and he will work for his future father in law. He says that he does not really love Valencia, but he decides to marry her anyway to work for her father. -
Visiting Mother
Billy goes and visits his mother in Pine Knoll in an elderly home. Billy is 41 at this time, and had just put his mother in the home only a few months earlier. His mother then gets pneumonia a month into her stay at the home and isn't expected to survive from it. She then asks him "How did I get so old?". -
Tralfamadorian Zoo
Billy was abducted by an alien race, and was later moved to a zoo for all of the aliens to observe him. While in the zoo, Billy got a new member named Montana who is a famous movie star. The enclosure that Billy and Montana were in was a very modern/contemporary styled enclosure, that looks like a normal house on Earth. Montana and Billy are observed by the aliens as if they are animals to humans. The two of them then have a child within the alien ship. -
Plane Crash
Billy is involved in a plane crash in Vermont that kills everyone except him. While Billy is in the hospital after the plane crash, his wife Valencia, is involved in a car accident, on her way to the hospital. She drove frantically and ended up dying in the hospital of carbon monoxide poisoning. -
Billy Dies
Billy always new that he was going to die. He was always going to die on the specific day no matter what happened. He was killed with a laser gun while he was on the alien space ship.
