Moral injury explored in Veterans Day documentary at BAMPFA

!- Start of DoubleClick Floodlight Tag: Please do not remove Activity name of this tag: UCB001CP Retargeting URL of the webpage where the tag is expected to be placed: http://unknown This tag must be placed between the. For 10 years, U.S. Army veteran Tom Voss tried to heal from the moral injury he suffered serving in Iraq. Moral injury  - "injury to the soul," says Voss - is the profound shame many veterans feel when their war experiences violate their moral beliefs. By summer 2013, the Wisconsin resident, also plagued by grief, insomnia, depression, anxiety and survivor's guilt, was on the brink of suicide, an epidemic among military veterans. So, he decided to take a walk, a very long walk, to try and reckon with himself internally, and asked co-worker and fellow veteran Anthony Anderson if he could borrow a backpack. "I was planning on walking across the country. That's what I thought I needed to clear my head and get a hold on my life and on how these events were affecting me and my family," says Voss, 33.