It turned out to be friendly. Yeah I lit up their ass. They know they didn't give the password. Charges were dropped the next day. In all, Terry had killed 53 friendlies from the lookout tower.
Combat trauma brings about long-lasting changes in brain chemistry.
Hell, how could it not. However, healing does not mean a return to the innocence that Terry had before he got on the jet to Vietnam. It was 1983, and Terry was far removed from the Mekong Delta. His jungle now was a southeastern Michigan home with his wife, Joyce. Terry had become so accustomed to life in Vietnam that he did not know any other way to live.