That people are morally injured in the course of their service should come as no surprise given that uniformed people are mandated to use lethal force and to deny adversaries material support. A deployed person does not need to see “guts and gore” to be deeply wounded when they believe they have been manipulated or mistreated by those they trusted; they do not need to observe first-hand atrocities like genocide or ethnic cleansing to have their sense of right and wrong disrupted and their conscience badly injured. Meeting those who have committed such acts, and encountering their victims, is
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