Billy Pilgrim: His life out of War

In Chapter 3 of Slaughterhouse 5 we are brought to Billy's life after the war. Billy seems to be successful and happy in Ilium. His childhood home has been destroyed in the construction of new town buildings, but he shows no sadness to this event. The lack of emotion over this destruction shows another example of the Tralfamadorian's philosophy of  death being a moment in time, and that the person, or thing, is simply in bad shape. Billy clearly believes that his house has been in better shape, he does not see the "death" of both his home and childhood.

On page 59, Billy demonstrates that his is content with the demolition of his old home. "Billy drove through a scene of even greater desolation. It looked like Dresden after it was fire-bombed- like the surface of the moon. The house where Billy had grown up used to be somewhere in what was so empty now. This was urban renewal...That was all right with Billy Pilgrim."

Billy is clearly okay with the destruction of is home, as he sees, just as the Tralfamadorians, that the loss of someone or something is never gone, as it has exsisted in time before. While this is a logical reason for Billy to show no sadness or remorse over the desturction, perhaps there are other reasons for this lack of emotion. As we read more into the book, do you think that we will find more about Billy's childhood that could add another reason for his content with the demolition?