{"id":47693,"date":"2015-01-03T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cc_michael_yandell-the_war_within_a_veterans_moral_injury\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:00:04","slug":"cc_michael_yandell-the_war_within_a_veterans_moral_injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47693","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Michael Yandell&#8211;The war within: A veteran\u2019s moral injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, moral injury describes my disillusionment, the erosion of my sense of place in the world. The spiritual and emotional foundations of the world disappeared and made it impossible for me to sleep the sleep of the just. Even though I was part of a war that was much bigger than me, I still feel personally responsible for its consequences. I have a feeling of intense betrayal, and the betrayer and betrayed are the same person: my very self.<\/p>\n<p>Calling my experience \u201cdisillusionment\u201d\u009d does not describe how I feel about those with whom I shared military ser\u00c2\u00advice. Nor have I become disillusioned with the ability and dedication of the U.S. military to meet specifically identified objectives.<\/p>\n<p>What began to erode for me in Iraq in 2004 was my perception of good and evil. What I lost was a world that makes moral sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2014-12\/war-within\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, moral injury describes my disillusionment, the erosion of my sense of place in the world. The spiritual and emotional foundations of the world disappeared and made it impossible for me to sleep the sleep of the just. Even<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47693\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,143,168,104,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}