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I walked around with lots of guilt and wondering, can I ever forgive myself…

Michael Allison (US Marine Corps, 1999-2007) talks about how the moral injury affected him.

Transcript

I've found myself wondering

in all of these different
scenarios and circumstances.

Some of these things
were my fault

and some of these things.

What could I have done?

And wondering...

what could I have done?

And I walked around
with a lot of guilt

and wondering...

can I ever forgive myself
for either

killing these people
or can I forgive myself

of should have saying something
when I could have done something

to potentially save
my friends lives

and help my gunny
and things like that.

Because delivering this,
this water, this ammo to them

7 seconds away,
I just walked away.

I just drove away from where
this car bomb just came from.

Could I have
done something about that?

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