Sherman rightly construes it as a national "duty" to understand the soldier's "healthy struggle... to remain alive to civilian sensibilities without losing the... steel and resilience" essential to military service and to facilitate healing of the psychic rifts war can cause.
The traditional model of how we choose is centered around psychic conflict, warring parts of the mind, instinct vs. reason, id against ego, unconscious motivations avoiding conscious recognition.
But they are also nervous about what their minds will carry back, given the psychic toll of war day after day and the prospect of additional tours.
In advocating a public, shared confrontation with the psychic scars of war, Junger aims to stop trauma burning a hole through individual veterans.
Anthony Stevens, an Air Force veteran and self-described former cocaine addict, pointed to silhouetted images superimposed on the giant letters and showing the stages of a soldier's life, from infancy to childhood to combat to liberation from the psychic wounds of war.
From the common suffering of everyone (but which prevents to cope with the requirements of military aeronautics) to the war psychic disorders, the SMPCAA is a unique place where anything may be said and heard, with often the sole intention of flying to complete the mission.
Not exactly a sequel to Restrepo so much as an alternate cut, Korengal explores the psychic impact of war on those who wage it, using hours of previously unseen on-the-ground footage and interviews.
Which is why it's so sick to fight unnecessary wars, and so immoral to send other people's children off to wars — psychic as well as physical — from which one's own children are carefully protected.
