He served in Vietnam in a fragmented, schizoid, rifle platoon/troop under two radically-different, veteran officers who had served in earlier Vietnam tours -- contrasting and dueling Sergeants (one good, the other evil):Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe), tough but fair, humane, saintly and compassionate, a pot-head, with doubts about the warStaff Sergeant Bob Barnes (Tom Berenger), battle-hardened/callous, face-scarred, remorseless, menacing, boozing, fierce and sociopathicIn he violence of combat against the Viet Cong, the two ""good"" and ""bad"" Sergeants clashed, forcing the recruit to examine his own loyalty and perspective toward violence.I""ve been in love with you for a very long time.I just didn""t know how to say it.And now that I do know, I - it""s oo late." As he departs, he confesses to Isobel: "If I had stolen anything from Brandon Abbas, it would have been you.]Appearing in a vegetative state, Laurie was suffering from "extreme dissociative disorder" and had been mute for years.As a clock gonged twelve o""clock midnight (it actually struck 13 times), the camera moved to a fireplace and before it, a massive wooden coffin set on a table.One of the bullets that went through Fulbright""s body struck Officer Flint""s arm.All three of the bloodied and wounded survivors, Foley, Rosewood, and Flint, were reunited in the ride area, as Foley asked: "I wonder what time the park opens.