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What is moral injury in veterans?

  • Written by Holly Arrow, Director, Groups and War Lab, University of Oregon
imageWhat is moral injury?Truthout.org, CC BY-NC-SA

On Memorial Day, Americans remember those who died while in service to the country. In the past five years, a large proportion of these deaths have been suicides.

Popular media often link military suicide with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which does indeed have a documented association with...

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