It's not my problem any more

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I should just forget about it and make my brain move on. What am I talking about? The guy I was dating until he broke up with me in February. He broke up with me because he was experiencing severe anxiety, trauma, nightmares, etc., after effects of an abusive relationship that he had been in. He thought he was OK to date again years later. No more nightmares or anxiety, and then we started getting close. It all started up again, nightmares, feelings of avoidance, thoughts that "it's all happening again", so he broke up. I had offered to work through it with him, with a therapist if necessary, but he chose avoidance. I don't mean that negatively. I don't know what he was experiencing, not viscerally. I don't know what he was feeling in his body, his emotions, etc. I mean it factually. He chose to avoid the problem by breaking up instead of working through it in hopes of making it go away in such a way that we could have a relationship. Not a criticism. An observation. Anyway... We broke up like 9 months ago, so why am I still going on about it? Well, things are getting better. I don't miss him as much. I have days when I don't think about him all the time. But last Saturday I went to the Veteran's Day event at our Veteran's monument. He was a Marine. One of the speakers was a therapist who works with people who have PTSD and moral injury. I may have been the only other person there who knew what moral injury is. It's when you have to do something that totally offends your moral code, and it messes up your mind, causes all kinds of shame and guilt, and sometimes veterans commit suicide because of it. Well, this lady has had a fair amount of success with groups of veterans working through it together. It's more effective when there are other people who have been there and who "get it". So anyway, I started thinking about my ex, and how, dadgum it, if someone could convince him to go and find the right group, he could maybe work through his trauma and eventually be able to be with someone again. I'm not saying me, but someone. Only I know that he's too consarned stubborn and convinced that he's "broken" and "ruined" to even want to try. Maybe he's afraid too, idk. But I can't even approach him with it. We aren't connected at that level any more. It's just not my problem. I have to let it go. Ugh.