THE GRUNTS
30 years later, than that of bereaved a spouse whose partner had
died in the previous six months.
‘A WAR OF MORAL INJURY’
In Afghanistan, some ugly aspects of the local culture and the
brutality of the Taliban rubbed
American sensibilities raw, setting
the stage for deeper moral injury
among Marines like Nick Rudolph.
He remembered one time where
Marines helped local Afghans
build a school, near Combat Outpost San Diego, outside Marjah.
“And all the kids went to that
school, and the Taliban came over
and splashed acid in their faces
and, like, horribly deformed them,”
he said. “And it was because they
went to a school that we built and
they didn’t like it. They didn’t
view it as we were trying to help
them be educated. They just d