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SUMMARY:Healing From Moral Injury with Larry Winters\, USMC\, LMHC
DESCRIPTION:A Vietnam Vet Helps Us Understand Ourselves\nLarry Winters went to Vietnam at the age of eighteen\, and like many\, was injured for life. What Larry saw\, and what he was told to do\, was just too much. His book\, The Making and Unmaking of a Marine is an important work documenting what went wrong for so many – and the path toward healing and forgiveness.. \nLarry will be talking to our us about Moral Injury\, the crushing psychological and spiritual anguish we experience when an authority or a trusted person violates our core morality. \nThis deep wounding challenges one’s sense of self and one’s trust in humanity. And the wound can deepen even further when there is no responsible party for resolution or reparation. \nThrough sharing\, storytelling\, and science\, Larry will help us understand that moral injury is not confined to the battlefield\, but deep injury can emerge in narcissistic relationships\, nasty divorces\, religious betrayals\, and in the governing of communities. \nThese ethical fractures contribute to the disillusionment and despair many feel in the moment. But perhaps understanding that we all share the effects of such trauma can help to ease our pain and division. \nWe welcome Larry Winters\, an honored war veteran – and now a psychotherapist – to understand moral injury in modern life – and discover the road to healing. \nWe’re pleased to announce an additional contributor for the evening: Menachem Hojda\, LCSW\nMenachem is the grandson of four Holocaust survivors who taught him the importance of hope. He founded his practice\, Belong PC\, to foster healing through connection\, providing clinical therapy and supervision. Menachem teaches at Touro University and consults and trains on building cultures of belonging. He is also a Program Analyst for Oakland Community Health Network and serves on the Board of Nefesh International\, and is licensed in MI\, and FL. His contact information is Menachem Hojda LCSW  (248) 259-6524. \n  \n\nWE HOPE YOU’LL JOIN US!  \nPlease this registration button to reserve your seat on Zoom.\nNote: A recording will be available after the event\, but you must register to receive the link. \nRegister for this Event \n\nTHIS IS A BY CONTRIBUTION EVENT \nClick on the contribution button and pay what you are able.\nThe suggested amount is $10 (US)\, but if you are not able to contribute at this time\, please simply register.\n \nPlease Make a Contribution to Help Us Cover Expenses — Thank You! \n  \n\nAbout Larry Winters \nLawrence (Larry) Winters\, USMC\, LMHC\, is a Vietnam combat veteran\, poet\, playwright\, psychotherapist\, and nationally recognized voice on moral injury. \nFor over twenty-five years\, he worked as a group therapist at Four Winds Hospital\, specializing in trauma recovery for veterans and civilians alike. His practice centered not only on psychological healing but on the deeper\, often silenced moral wounds that many returning service members carry — what scholar Jonathan Shay calls moral injury. \nLarry has written extensively on the subject\, drawing from personal experience and clinical insight to explore the soul’s reckoning after war. His book\, The Making and Unmaking of a Marine (which can be purchased on Amazon). His essays and poems examine the rupture that occurs when duty conflicts with conscience\, and how healing begins not through diagnosis\, but through witness\, storytelling\, and truth-telling. His memoir\, The Tug of War (soon to be published) and many of his essays confront this exact threshold — where grief\, responsibility\, and spiritual reckoning collide. \nLarry was also a key contributor to Veteran-Civilian Dialogues at Intersections International in New York City\, where he facilitated conversations that bridged the silence between those who have gone to war and those who have not. These dialogues broke new ground in creating public spaces for moral healing\, deep listening\, and communal accountability. \nA passionate advocate for re-humanizing the narrative of the veteran\, Larry has used poetry\, visual storytelling\, and public speaking to expand the national conversation on war’s moral cost. He continues to write and present on how the invisible wounds of war — what he has called “Shadow Hearts” — live in the body\, the family\, and the nation’s conscience long after combat ends. \nContact Information\nLawrence (or Larry) Winters\nwinters.lawrence@gmail.com\n914-489-7881 \n\nIn preparation for this event\, Larry wrote: \nYour Heaven is Just a Game \nFor eighteen years\, I knelt by my bed\, said my pledge\, followed the golden rule. \nThen came boot camp. \nI learned to kill without shame. \nAnd I kept praying. \nBut I never heard your voice. \nI came home with silence louder than God. \nAnd now I believe — your heaven was just a game. \nThat poem was not therapy. \nIt was confession. \nIt was my soul tapping the wall\, saying I’m still here. \nWhen I began writing The Tug of War\, I thought I was writing about Vietnam. But the jungle was only the setting. The true terrain was internal—grief\, guilt\, and the moral unraveling that comes when your compass spins in your hand. \nShay spoke of Achilles not as myth\, but as mirror. A warrior betrayed. A man whose honor was broken by the very structure that demanded his loyalty. And in that break\, he lost his humanity. \nI know that fracture. I’ve worn it like an invisible wound beneath my skin. Not PTSD. That’s the government’s name for what can be medicated. \nThis is different. \nMoral injury is the pain of violating your own sacred code. \nOf watching yourself become a stranger\nin the name of duty. \nAnd the wound doesn’t heal through time.\nIt heals through witness.\nThrough naming.\nThrough the slow turning of the soul toward forgiveness—not just of others\,\nbut of oneself. \nI’m not here to perform. I’m here to reveal. \nTo speak not as a professional\, or a theorist\,\nbut as a man who has walked this long road and still—some days—doesn’t know if he’s made it home. \nAnd I say this now\, not just for myself\,\nbut for the others still carrying silence like a second skin. \nWe were trained to fight.\nWe were not prepared for what it meant to come back. \nWe need spaces—not of correction\, but of connection.\nWe need stories.\nWe need ritual.\nWe need to sit in the company of those who won’t look away. \n“A wound that goes unacknowledged becomes a doorway for despair.” — Unknown \nBut a wound that is honored\,\nwitnessed\,\nand given voice—\ncan become\na doorway home. \nThis is what I hope to bring to the presentation I’ll be giving. Not solutions. But resonance. \nNot neat answers. But a circle of acknowledgment. \nAnd the courage to ask—not just what happened—but what was broken inside of us when it did? \nThis is what The Tug of War carries. \nThis is what moral injury demands we speak aloud. \nNot for justice. \nBut for the soul. \nBecause that’s where recovery lives.\nWhere forgiveness waits.\nAnd where\, perhaps\,\nWe begin again. \n 
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