From Georgetown.edu: Sherman, a university professor of philosophy at Georgetown, describes the moral injury faced by veterans in Afterwar:Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers  (Oxford University Press, 2015) as the psychological anguish produced by living through the horrors of war.  “It’s also about reactive attitudes that express and record how you hold yourself and others accountable,” she says. “There are a lot of people who feel guilt – sometimes inaptly so, but nonetheless real feelings.”