The lack of morality in war results in the perversion of what is normal and long lasting traumatic psychological damage to soldiers. During war, the line is blurred between between what is moral and what is not. The mistreatment of the dead is commonplace. In The Iliad, after Achilles kills Hector, he proceeds to abuse his corpse by dragging the body on a chariot behind him. In The Things They Carried we see the soldiers kicking corpses and cutting off thumbs. Death has become so normalized to soldiers during war that in The Things They Carried Mitchell Sanders claims that there is a moral behind the cut off thumb. The moral might be that there is no moral. This distortion of what is normal causes soldiers to participate in behaviors that
