- Birdy heads back into the tent. Miller tries to check his wound, but Birdy tells her to worry about Jonesy. Miller wails that Jonesy is dead.
- She calms down and numbs Birdy's leg. Roberts goes on about the success of the mission, but Birdy doesn't care.
- The camp isn't attacked, and they're sent back to Baghdad.
- The memorial service for Jonesy is held. Birdy is glad the blind child had someone to reach for in his last moments.
- Miller and Birdy nod at each other. They don't need to speak.
- Everyone is reassigned. Birdy gets a purple heart and is sent to Germany to get his leg treated before he gets reassigned.
- He says goodbye to his squad buddies, including Marla, who's going to the States to train new recruits.
- Birdy tells Marla he loves her. She says she can't deal with that right now, but she's giving him a lot of thought.
- The book ends with a letter to Uncle Richie. Birdy says that if the official word is they won the war, he'll have doubts, but he thinks it's wrong that they lost the war too, knowing what his buddies gave their lives for.
- He doesn't know if he'd recognize his squad buddies outside Iraq. He says he doesn't understand God.
- Finally, he tells his uncle that he understands why he never talked about Vietnam. He doesn't know if words could make people understand what they went through.