According to The Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University, moral injury is “the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when a person perpetrates, witnesses or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.” Not everyone with PTSD experiences moral injury, and not all types of moral injury induce PTSD. A more expansive view of moral injury, advanced by psychologist Brett Litz, shows it can also result from an individual’s own actions – what’s known as perpetration-based moral injury. Moral injury in ‘The Odyssey’Kovic’s actions and ensuing trauma reflect the same kind of moral injury seen in Damon’s Odysseus. As fresh waves of troops continue to be exposed to the horrors of war, Odysseus’ trauma also continues to hit home.