and she helped me, she helped that vilem by urging action from washington to addis ababa the african union and a platoon of the nigerian peace keepers went in the next day. and i like to think that by doing something a little wrong i corrected a greater wrong. and that village exists today. but also what happens is by taking an action that is very much counter to one's personal, moral believes or by not taking that action i think we are left with something called moral injury. and this inability to fix a problem, this inability to -- or this having taken an action that really goes against one's personal believes leave's one's soul really very much injured. and there is research by jonathan shea and brett lits at the va hospital in boston on this topic. and reading their research helped me very much where i understand where i am. >> this context, i think there are a great many fellow citizens who've never gone to war who suffer from a moral injury of another type. but what is there to be done about that? >> i think the first thing is people have to understand that this is an injury to