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Please be advised. Psychologists describe moral injury as the deep psychological wound that forms when

something violates your core sense of right and wrong.

It is not a diagnosis, but rather a fracture in one's moral code.

And that fracture cuts even deeper when it comes from a leader, an authority figure.

Someone who, in your eyes eyes should be held to a higher

standard. When that kind of betrayal lands, it shakes your trust. It breeds lasting anger,

dissolutionment, and a distorted view of the world and one's place in it. For many people,

that fracture heals over time. For others, it becomes the entry point for something far more

dangerous. On the night of June 5, 1968, 24-year-old Sirhan Bashara Sirhan walked into the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and shot Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

He was not a career criminal nor a hitman.

He was a young man who had once called Kennedy his hero.

But something had fractured, and what grew in that fracture brought him to that kitchen that night.

In Sir Hahn's mind, Kennedy did not just disappoint him.

He became something else entirely, a symbol of a nation he held responsible for the violence that shattered his childhood.

And Sir Han convinced himself that destroying that symbol would wake the world up to his and others suffering.

Almost overnight, his hero became a target, and Sir Han's wounds, left untreated, became a weapon.

From Audible originals and Treefort Media, I'm Candace D. Long.

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