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When military service challenges personal values

I wear my military uniform with pride but every time someone thanks me for my service I think about the drone strikes we carried out and wonder what I actually served.

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He's wrestling with the gap between public honor and private moral injury, questioning whether his service aligned with his deepest values.

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