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How to process guilt when tragedy happens during deployment

My wife died while I was deployed and I got emergency leave but I keep thinking I should have been there and no one understands that the guilt is worse than the grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The impossible mathematics of duty and love create a guilt that transcends rational analysis and resists conventional comfort.

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