The moral injury of war: Eric Hodges at TEDxVirginiaTech
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- Eric Hodges is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public and International Affairs. Eric is a former Marine, serving tours in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Beijing, China, and Oslo, Norway. Eric's current research focuses on how veterans can benefit civil society. In the "The Moral Injury of War," Eric will examine the boundaries that exist for soldiers re-entering the civilian world.
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He articulated in just 13 minutes what I’ve felt for years. Amazing speech
Very good! We as civilians need to take responsibility for war also!
You vote for leaders than send us there. Of course they dordnt make it your fault but maybe you should vote as if your son was being sent to war and having him every changed
I am conducting a workshop for veterans in Florida next month, and will use this information for moral injury. Great talk!!
Are you familiar with the book/audiobook "The Theater of War" by Bryan Doerries? Also in audiobook format. Highly recommend.
Excellent Eric! Thought provoking and very well done. Semper Fi Brother!
Eric, I greatly appreciate the Moral Injury portion of this talk also. I am very interested in the dialogue meetings. RH Henkle, West Point 1989.
Wow this is great! Need more like him.
"shared human dignity":LIFE=L-ife I-s F-reedom E-verywhere
or, L-iving I-s F-reedom and E-quality.
This attitude is what can bring peace in our world,namely:there is nothing more sacred than life and living, which r the common denominator all people really want
Eric, we are dealing with an American Society which for statiscal purposes is wholly disconnected with America`s Veterans and the reality of sacrifice and service in situations like war. It is not going to change until we have a Peacetime Draft once again.--RH Henkle, West Point `89
Are you saying you want military service to be mandatory even when there's no war to fight?
Consider this:
Maybe we are disconnected from our veterans not because too few of us have been traumatized by war, but because military service deliberately fucks with your ability to connect with people and we're not prepared to re-re-educate our soldiers towards being allowed to feel and empathize and need help when they get back.
Capitalism being happy to let you die when you're too traumatized to generate profit may also have something to do with it.
I don't see how it's possible to actually bridge the gap he's referring to. Most people that relate to each other do so because they have similar experiences. People can have an intellectual understanding of another's experience but an emotional understanding is something different.
It's a live question, Rosemary, but unless we want a perpetually isolated class of veterans I think we have to try. It would likely take abstracting from different experiences that share similar features. Trauma is not limited solely to combat. At the very least, listening to individual veterans' experiences is a step in the right direction.
Excellent!
Outstanding!
Good talk.
I would really love to chat with this guy. Any idea on how to connect with him??
I found him on LinkedIn
Why does this have no comments
We aren't pushing toward that devide we're already there. There a reason I just dont associate with civilians anymore and my only friends are fellow veterans.
FYI, there is no such thing a "former" Marine.
Elyce Bishop once a marine , always a marine