Talking Wounded

Terry Rodgers Came Back From Iraq a Changed Man, and Not Just Because of the Bomb

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 10, 2005; Page C01

"So we're driving down the road and it's midnight, so it's pitch-black, and when you're driving at night, you don't use any lights," says Terry Rodgers, "but we can see fine because we've got night vision goggles."

He's sitting in the living room of his mother's townhouse in Gaithersburg, telling the story of his last night in Iraq. He's still got his Army crew cut and he's wearing a T-shirt with an American flag on the chest.