In chapter 9, Billy and his friends return to Dresden to get some  souvenirs. Billy stays in the wagon as his friends go looking around. As he's laying there, two Germans come up to his wagon and begin to scold him on how awfully his horses seem to have been treated. The horses were thirsty and their hooves were cracked. Walking on the  destroyed ground of Dresden pained them. "When Billy saw the condition of his means of transportation, he burst into tears. He hadn't cried about anything else in the war" (197).

I think that the reason the horse's pain made Billy cry was because it reminded Billy of the pain and suffering he saw in the war. Do you think Billy and the horses are the same at all in the way the destruction of Dresden affected them both?