What I Want You to Know Film Screening and Panel

"What I Want You to Know" is a searing film about the moral consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, articulated by those who fought them. As the film's official synopsis states "the 13 veterans featured in this film trusted their leaders and believed what they were told about why they needed to go fight and possibly die: to protect America, defend American freedoms, and help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. But what they found on the ground was shockingly different." In often harrowing detail, this film lifts up the truths these veterans feel are rarely told - the experience of betrayal, moral anguish, and the effects of witnessing and participating in wartime violence. This session will feature a screening of this powerful and courageous film, followed by a panel discussion between the film's director and two leading scholars working at the intersection of theology and moral injury.