War’s damage to one sense of self as a moral being could even be conceived as one of humanity’s core dilemmas.
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Moral injury in real time
There’s a reason why one of my chapters is tentatively titled “The Moral Injury of the Long War.” The great Jonathan Shay may have coined the term, based on the accumulated grief of Vietnam, but this generation has claimed it as they try to parse what honor means when it also means killing for uncertainContinue reading “Moral injury in real time”
Veterans Day musings on moral injury
Moral injury, Jonathan Shay reminds us, puts land mines in a soldier’s heart: “The body codes moral injury as physical attack and reacts with the same massive mobilization” in response.
I Ain't Marching Anymore 