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General Mook, as he is well known, is the author of Faith, Family, and Flag. Memoirs of an unlikely American Samurai Crusader. Mukhayama volunteered and served in Korea and Vietnam. In 1986, he became the youngest general in the Army.
Soon after, he was promoted to Major General. Commanding the 70th Training Division. during desert storm. Retired now, he spends his time serving our veterans. When I was in the Mekong Delta with the Hard Corps Battalion, an incident occurred where we had just overrun an enemy position and we had killed numerous enemy and in fact there were three dead bodies at my feet.
Now The time unit is most vulnerable. is right after a victory. It's just human nature to kind of let your guard down. and breathed a sigh of relief.
Well, I'm the guy in charge.
So I'm on my radio barking out orders to my platoon leaders. and then suddenly I stopped. And I looked at the three dead bodies at my feet. I realized that something had happened to me, something had hardened my heart. Only moments earlier these were alive human beings.
Children of God. They had families and loved ones. and they were fighting for something as important to them as I was fighting for. and yet I was just treating them like they were bumps on a log. And then I remembered Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
where he told us to pray for our enemies. And so in the midst of all this stuff going on, I said a prayer for the three V at Columb And myself. I knew I was praying for myself as well.
Now, this all took about thirty seconds in my mind. But it's something that stuck with me ever since.
So The VA was not in good shape when we came back from Vietnam, and so I founded a five O one C three faith based non profit called Military Outreach USA. And we have two major programs. One is to help homeless veterans. And the other is to reduce The high rate of suicide. Because we address a subject that is not really that much known.
Everybody knows about PTSD. and everybody knows about the effects of traumatic brain injury. Very few people know of the concept of moral injury.
Now, in twenty fifteen we published a book. about this. Uh the title of the book is they don't receive purple hearts. And it's about the invisible wound of war, moral injury. What is moral injury?
From the time you're born until you're eighteen years old, you develop a personal moral code. a sense of right or wrong. That could come from your family. Your religion your community, whatever, and then you join the military. and you'd learn a warrior code.
That is superimposed on your personal moral code and in fact transforms it somewhat. And then you might have to participate. in activities or operations that violate your personal moral code. such as killing. You don't have to be the person that pulls the trigger.
you could feel you should have prevented it, or you could follow another unit and you see that innocent civilians have been killed, or you handle body parts. At that time you sustained the so-called invisible wound of war called moral injury. It's not physical. You can't see it. but in military operations you're constantly moving, From point A to point B to point C.
You don't have time to stop and reflect on this stuff.
So what do you do? You bury it. In it becomes unresolved guilt and shame Then you leave the military, or you come back to the States. And something triggers it. And and this could be decades later.
I'm not you know, 'cause when you first come back you kind of get on with life. you know, if you're single, you get married and, you know, you have a family, you get a job. But then later something triggers it. and it bubbles up to the surface. PTSD is a situation caused by external forces.
With moral injury, it's an internal. situation. where you basically feel that you have participated in such bad things, you are no longer worthy of love. that God doesn't love you. In fact, you get mad at God.
That's okay. He can take it. and you totally lose your sense of self worth. And unless you have a strong coping mechanism for that, Anger depression suicide And it's the position of Military Outreach USA that the main approach for moral injury, is not a medical doctor with prescription drugs. It's the forgiveness and grace of a moral authority, a loving God, the counselling of clergy, and or sensitive therapists And the support.
of a community offering hope and help. I have often asked myself, why haven't I had The flashbacks, the nightmares. And I always attributed it to two things. Number one was my faith. And number two, Was my wonderful wife, who has really forgiven me and put up with me for fifty-three years.
But after I started working with Veterans and getting involved into the invisible wounds of war. I realized that that incident with the three Viet Con. I realized that I was one in a million. who is able to address my moral injury. At the time it happened.
And what a story Major General James Mukhayamich has told Moral injury is what he was talking about. Prescription drugs won't take care of it. Medicine and doctors won't. It's forgiveness, grace, and mercy. that will A beautiful story.
Major General James Mukayama, General Mook. here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, Please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
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