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I've learned to manage it because I've dealt with the situation itself in my mind.

Eddie Hoffman (US Marine Corps, 2001 – 2010) describes how he has come to terms with the events that caused his moral injury.

Transcript

When I think now about

the events that were morally
injurious to me,

I've come to terms with
the context around it, the way

I've learned to manage it,
because I've dealt with the

situation itself in my mind.

I've, you know, processed it.

I've told other people about it.

I've, you know,
shared with a lot of people.

And not one of them
have judged me on it.

And I think that was part
of the process, too, was,

you know,
I don't know that I was ever

a hundred percent okay with it

within my own mind,
but everybody else seems to be.

So the more I shared it,
the more I was able to,

you know, get outside my bubble
and all that,

the more I started

learning that other people
have dealt with some similar

things or have done
some similar things.

And in
the context of combat of war,

some of the stuff we had to

do in the military, 
totally reasonable and

it took time for me
to get to that point myself.

But it's been a

you know,
compared to where I was

13 years ago, 15 years ago,

I'm definitely able
to come to peace with it.

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