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I got to hear myself through somebody else's story.

Michael Hardiman (US Army, 1970-1974) describes how it helped him to be in a group of men who had also experienced moral injury

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At the VA center.

They introduced me
to a group of men

that I later discovered

had some of the same issues
that I did,

which made it easier for me
to share my deeper secrets.

So with the help of the chaplain
and help with a counselor.

We started digging deeper
into what was going on with us

and why it persists.

Which makes everything
a lot better

because I got to hear myself
through somebody

else's story.

And the more you heard,

the more you was willing
to share your part of the story

and the more you shared
your part of the story,

the more
somebody else shared theirs.

And we became friends through
the sharing of these stories.

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