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When you feel like your military service wasn't 'real enough'

Everyone thanks me for my service but I spent most of my deployment fixing computers in an air-conditioned office and I feel like a fraud every time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between public narratives of heroism and personal experience creates a painful impostor syndrome around one's own worth and sacrifice.

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