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It's something that's going to scar you and eventually you're going to have to deal with it.

Dan Alfaro (US Army, 2002-2014) explains what moral injury means to him.

Transcript

I've done some reading about
people living in

Nazi occupied Germany
and how they were confronted

with situations where

if they would have

spoken out against things
that they found vile,

it would lead to disastrous
consequences for them.

So they were, in a sense,

being complicit in an action
by not acting.

But then when you're
in a situation like that,

I couldn't

blame somebody for looking
after their sense of safety.

But if it goes strongly against
your sense of morality, it's

something that's going to scar

you and eventually
you're going to have

to deal with that injury at some
point and it'll unpack itself.

And you don't know when,

but it will.

If it's something that's untrue,
damage to your sense of

morality.

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