I have been inactive on Medium for a period of time, unsure of myself, though I hasten to add, I do not troll here, or try to deliberately be a troll, but I too have a mild case of PTSD from sustaining life long abuse, having been born with cerebral palsy, and being subject to violent crime for eight years of my life, stigmatized the rest of it, and I am sure it doesn’t compare to what veterans like Tom experience in a hot theater. What the complimentary symptoms do do, however, is lock us in, pin us down to something, and I for one have refused it, since my life experience requires belligerence, intolerance, and sometimes a very stiff-necked intransigence to survive. All disillusionment is, in some sense, a moral injury, and perhaps what Tom can do to give back, at some point, is talk at boot camp.

I have no moral jury myself with this method of promulgation, either by Aspen or the author, but aren’t we locking ourselves in, too, to the living throb of our scars?