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Moral Injury

So you’ve seen a lot of bad bad stuff. People dying, people dying. So you’ve seen some gruesome things, body parts everywhere. War can be ugly it can be rather scary, rather scary and can make you do some things, really bad things. Like open fire on civilians, civilians, putting holes through them. Like opening fire on civilians, killing lots of them. Sometimes in combat you gotta say goodbye to your buddy, your battle buddy because they never came back from convoy because they got blown the fuck up. When in theatre you may be given orders to do some things, some very naughty things. Like take souvenir from dead bodies, fingers and organs but you’re just a solider following orders from above, orders from above so when top tells you to shoot anything suspicious at all, you’d open fire on practically everything, everyone because all your briefings taught you to profile based on hate and fear. Now your deployment is full of blood, blood and guts on your hands. Blood and guts on your mind, blood and guts everywhere. Dead bodies here, dead bodies there, dead bodies everywhere. Some on fire, some burning or just missing limbs. So now you get to come home and settle back into life with all these images in your head, living in your head. You can try to shut them out with booze and self medicating but these demons catch up to you when least expecting. Like when you’re sleeping or driving or standing in line at the grocery store waiting to pay for your groceries. It’s bad enough that we get to come home with PTSD and TBI’s and in some cases sexual traumas but to top it off we got moral injuries, moral injuries, moral injuries. Seeing people everywhere with their organs on the outside.

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from Moral Injury: Songs For Children, released September 11, 2010

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Jesus & The Robot Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

We decided collectively to form a super band and to take over the world by making catchy and undeniably beautiful songs about an assortment of things. We figured that it will only be a matter of time before the our music spreads like a deadly wildfire that wipes out much plantation and housing thus causing much ruin. ... more

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