![]() It's his way of dealing with the baggage he carries. What is the cost of war, not just in terms of PTSD, but in terms of ordinary stress reactions, and separation from family, and moral injury? And what happens to chaplains who have to experience all those things while also having to be the voice of grace, and mercy, and hope, and healing to their soldiers? Peters wrote this as part of his own healing, as part of the veterans writing project. And deployed again, and again, and again. We've so glamorized war and patriotism, we turn our head away from the injuries, visible and invisible, that the past 15 years have inflicted upon those who have deployed to fight in the never-ending Global War on Terrorism. But his is a story I have heard time and time again from veterans-and yes, from chaplains. ![]() It's a raw confession of anger, grief, lust, confusion, and doubt. ![]()
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