America Meditating Radio Show W/ Sister Jenna

Our guests today are Tom Voss and Rebecca Nguyen. Tom served as an infantry scout in the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment’s scout-sniper platoon. While deployed in Iraq, he participated in hundreds of combat and humanitarian missions and later returned home carrying invisible wounds of war - the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a "moral injury" - a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt that haunted him, Tom embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America, walking from Milwaukee to the Pacific Ocean with a fellow veteran. His journey across America was captured in the  film, Almost Sunrise by Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Michael Collins. For his work empowering veterans to overcome moral injury, Tom has been featured in many media outlets. Tom Voss’ sister, Rebecca Nguyen is an author, travel writer, award-wi