by CJ Heck
The article has now received several thousand responses from Vietnam Veteran groups in LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+. Those comments have run the gamut, from outright indignation, to soulful thoughts of helping others.
The original article was written by a Vietnam veteran, who chose to remain anonymous. He felt it was important for people to understand why he cannot, NOT think about Vietnam. He will always think about Vietnam -- and the war.
For a soldier, war wounds. It wounds the body. It wounds the mind. It also wounds the soul, but the soul does not condemn, or judge us. It is only our own ego which judges and condemns. Our soul becomes wounded anytime we are called on to do things that go against our natural conscience, which is our soul's sense of right and wrong.
We also have our unnatural conscience. This comes from mom and dad, schools, society, and in the case of the soldier, the government and military. When we go against our unnatural conscience, we learn there are consequences. It starts in childhood and follows us through life: if we lie, mom and dad will ground us; if we cheat on a test, we will fail the course; if we steal, we will go to jail. For the soldier, if you don't shoot the enemy first, you will be killed.
These learned consequences are paid through those who taught them to us: mom and dad, school, society, and the government and military. They do not damn the soul; however, they do wound the soul
through our natural conscience, our soul's sense of right and wrong. When this happens, the ego strives to make us pay, and it does this by using guilt.
The soldier is called on to do things that go against his natural conscience, which is the soul's sense of right and wrong. the ego takes control. It tries to make him pay by using guilt over a long period of time, sometimes for an entire lifetime.
When our body has a wound, it heals itself. The soul is much the same. When we do things to help others heal their soul, we also slowly heal ours, as well. We are taking the attention off of our individual judgment, or the judgment of our ego, and we begin to open our hearts by service to another.
The original article was written by a Vietnam veteran, who chose to remain anonymous. He felt it was important for people to understand why he cannot, NOT think about Vietnam. He will always think about Vietnam -- and the war.
For a soldier, war wounds. It wounds the body. It wounds the mind. It also wounds the soul, but the soul does not condemn, or judge us. It is only our own ego which judges and condemns. Our soul becomes wounded anytime we are called on to do things that go against our natural conscience, which is our soul's sense of right and wrong.
We also have our unnatural conscience. This comes from mom and dad, schools, society, and in the case of the soldier, the government and military. When we go against our unnatural conscience, we learn there are consequences. It starts in childhood and follows us through life: if we lie, mom and dad will ground us; if we cheat on a test, we will fail the course; if we steal, we will go to jail. For the soldier, if you don't shoot the enemy first, you will be killed.
These learned consequences are paid through those who taught them to us: mom and dad, school, society, and the government and military. They do not damn the soul; however, they do wound the soul
through our natural conscience, our soul's sense of right and wrong. When this happens, the ego strives to make us pay, and it does this by using guilt.
The soldier is called on to do things that go against his natural conscience, which is the soul's sense of right and wrong. the ego takes control. It tries to make him pay by using guilt over a long period of time, sometimes for an entire lifetime.
When our body has a wound, it heals itself. The soul is much the same. When we do things to help others heal their soul, we also slowly heal ours, as well. We are taking the attention off of our individual judgment, or the judgment of our ego, and we begin to open our hearts by service to another.
We are meant to serve one another. We are all one soul, all Brothers and Sisters, worldwide.
“I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do, and by the grace of God, I will.” ~Everett Hale
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