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Why gratitude for your service can feel hollow

I'm a veteran and civilians keep thanking me for my service but no one asks about the moral complexity of what I actually did over there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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He's experiencing how public hero narratives can silence the nuanced reality of military experience and moral injury.

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