Moral Injury Training Day
(Virtual Event)
by the Gulf Coast Veterans Coordination Council (CVEB)
Online Event Hosted by CAREforce
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January 26, 2023 | 900am - 1200pm CST
An act of transgression that create dissonance and conflict because it
violates assumptions and beliefs about what is right and wrong and personal goodness. (Litz, 2009)
Our Thanks To The Marsh Center for Chaplain Studies, BH Carroll For Provision of CEUs
Keynote Speakers
What is Moral Injury?
...regarding the experience of war [and military service], “moral injury” refers to the lasting emotional, psychological, social, behavioral, and spiritual impacts of actions that violate a service member’s core moral values and behavioral expectations of self or others (Litz et al., 2009).
The Taliban would pay families to strap suicide bombs onto their children (especially those mentally impaired) to blow up U.S. and Coalition Soldiers and Marines.
The idea was that the children could get in closer to the bomb’s effective range when it forced the Soldier or Marine to pause before shooting a child.
U.S. Soldiers and Marines would have to shoot those child suicide bombers as they approached.
Aviators dropped a napalm bomb on a village that had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces.
The aviators mistook a group of friendly forces and civilians as enemy troops, burning the little girl in the image, and killing four civilians (two of which were the girl's cousins)
As a trained combat aviator, you just dropped dangerous ordnance to kill and maim innocent civilians.
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Past Presentations
Thank you to our guest speaker Dr. Zackary Moon for presenting at our Moral Injury Symposium on October 26th, 2022!
Dr. Zachary Moon
Professor of Theology and Psychology, University of Chicago
