Richard E. La Fleur’s, Moral Injury and the American Veteran: Finding Meaning in Trauma, Guilt, and Shame explores how moral injury, the collective manifestation of shame and guilt as a result of betrayal and transgression, experienced by veterans returning from war deeply affects one's ability to recover from traumatic stressful events, and to find meaningfulness in the world. La Fleur combines a phenomenological framework with first-hand testimonies from veterans experiencing moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to deepen the reader’s understanding of these life events.