Sykes and Lodis wonder what their seats in the seventh row might cost, and Dime discusses the movie deal with Billy and Albert. When the Bravos arrive at the stadium two hours before kickoff, none of the staff seem to know what to do with them. He's trying to secure a movie deal to make a film about the firefight, and he announces that the actress Hilary Swank is interested in playing both Billy and his sergeant, Sergeant Dime. A movie producer, Albert, rides with Bravo. When the soldiers do so, the girls' faces fall-they're uninterested in soldiers. A group of college girls drives up alongside the limo and yells for the Bravos to put their windows down. On Thanksgiving Day, Billy arrives in a limo to the Texas Stadium and thinks that it looks very different from the stadium he's seen on television. Because the firefight was filmed by an embedded news team, Billy's platoon was renamed Bravo squad, heralded as heroes, and President Bush asked them to return home for a two-week Victory Tour, culminating at the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game. During the fight, Billy attempted to save his mentor, Shroom, but Shroom died at the hands of Iraqi insurgents anyway. Prior to the start of the novel, nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn, a soldier in the United States Army, was involved in a firefight on the banks of the Al-Ansakar Canal in Iraq.
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