Midland City’s most decorated war veteran. Ned Lingamon is arrested for killing his own baby and uses his one phone call to call Harold Newcomb Wilbur, Midland City’s second most decorated war veteran. Of course, Vonnegut only has Ned arrested so that he can make the phone call to Harold, the bartender at the cocktail lounge in the Holiday Inn, to create a distraction so that Vonnegut is not kicked out of the bar for acting suspicious.