Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn__ bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there__ something wrong with them because they find war repugnant but also thrilling. They hate it and miss it.Many of their self-judgments go to extremes. A comrade died because he stepped on an improvised explosive device and his commander feels unrelenting guilt because he didn__ go down a different street. Insurgents used women and children as shields, and soldiers and Marines feel a totalistic black stain on themselves because of an innocent child__ face, killed in the firefight. The self-condemnation can be crippling.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015
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Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn__ bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there__ something wrong with them because they find war repugnant but also thrilling. They hate it and miss it.Many of their self-judgments go to extremes. A comrade died because he stepped on an improvised explosive device and his commander feels unrelenting guilt because he didn__ go down a different street. Insurgents used women and children as shields, and soldiers and Marines feel a totalistic black stain on themselves because of an innocent child__ face, killed in the firefight. The self-condemnation can be crippling.The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015
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