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Billy Pilgrim is born in Illium, New York.
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He is amazed at its darkness.
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Billy Pilgrim's father dies in a hunting accident while Billy is attending military training.
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Billy Pilgrim, while studying optometry, is drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War II.
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Allied Air Force units bombed the German city of Dresden over a period of three days with firebombs.
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Billy Pilgrim is discharged from the military.
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Germany surrenders, and World War II in Europe ends. Billy Pilgrim is sent home from his war prisoner camp.
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As a result of his constant time-travel, Billy voluntarily enters a non-violent mental ward, where he meets Eliot Rosewater
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Billy Pilgrim meets his idolized author, Kilgore Trout. Trout is described peculiarily similar to Vonnegut himself.
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Billy's constant movement back and forth in time cause him confusion in his present existance.
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He is flying with a group of optometrists to a convention, and the plane crashes.
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She dies as result of a car accident while speeding to the hospital where Billy is held.
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Billy is shot while speaking on the nature of time. He knows of the event, and realized that it always has happened, is happening, and always will happen.
