p.388 "Billy found the afternoon stingingly exciting. There was so much to see-- dragon's teeth, killing machines, corpses with bare feet that were blue and ivory. So it goes. Bobbing up-and-down, up-and-down, Billy beamed lovingly at a bright lavender farmhouse that had been spattered with machine-gun bullets. Standing in its cock-eyed doorway was a German colonel. With him was an unpainted whore."
Although Billy was captured by the Germans, he seemingly had a positive outlook about the situation. He looked at the passing places in Luxembourg with admiration for their beauty.
Although war doesn't have a positive connotation, Billy finds beauty in unfortunate situations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Luxembourg_in_World_War_II
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