Moral Injury is commonly confused with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for a two main reasons:

1️⃣ Most people haven’t heard of Moral Injury, and

2️⃣...

I was a commander in the Middle East. We were under heavy fire at one time and began to run low on ammo, so I sent three of my men back 20 clicks to g...

I received a call to report to the scene of an accident. The car had rolled over, on the Interstate.

When I arrived, the firefighters— already on the...

Moral Injury occurs when the experiences or choices a person makes, is exposed to, or is ordered to do ruptures from their personal code of conduct, m...

Many people believe PTSD is the primary driver behind veteran and first-responder suicide. But, maybe— just maybe— it’s not.

Let’s look at the actual...

Moral Injury deals with the issues of right and wrong, and it’s complex.

Here’s the issue…

Right and wrong often seem very clear when you’re young.

I was in Beirut in 1983…

We were there in Lebanon on a peace-keeping mission, staying at a four-story bunker near the airport.

Because I had experie...

When I came back from Vietnam, I was the only living passenger on a C-130 cargo plane. I sat there, seat-belted in the back, with rows and rows of cof...

I was serving in the Middle East— as the commanding officer— and picked a bad place to conduct refueling ops. I didn’t recognize it as a bad location ...

It was a snow day in Alabama— the kind where they cancel school (and most jobs), the kind where people flood the grocery stores and buy all the milk &...

I was responsible for issuing the orders to “neutralize” a target (read: kill a person) while I was deployed in Afghanistan. It always bothered me tha...

One night a bunch of us— ten or so— went out drinking. I was in the Air Force. It was about 5 guys and about 5 of us gals.

We made our way back to a ...