The men, hoping for a delay of the Bologna mission, sullenly pray for continued rain. Secretly, Yossarian alters the intelligence map by moving the bomb line up to Bologna, suggesting that the allies have taken the city. Corporal Kolodny, seeing this, wakes Captain Black, the Intelligence Officer, to alert him that Bologna has been taken. Captain Black calls and wakes Colonel Korn to inform him of the development and to ask if the mission should be canceled. The Colonel, who assumes the intelligence accurate, responds in the affirmative. Yossarian has separate conversations with Ex-PFC Wintergreen and Clevinger (who has yet to vanish at this point.) Both men suggest, in their own way, that it is Yossarian's duty to die for his country, and that he has no right to question this fact......
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