Army medic dies of overdose
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- July
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Today I wrote about Joseph Dwyer, an army medic who appeared on the front page of USA Today in what became one of the iconic images of the Iraq War.
He was made famous by the picture, in which he runs with an injured Iraqi boy in his arms, and I’m sure for many, it was emblematic of the good the United States can do. Especially compared to other photos from this war, the ones from Abu Ghraib among them.
But Dwyer suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and was never able to shake his anxiety and depression and late last month he died.
For those of you who don’t remember Dwyer, here he is:
PHOTO: By Warren Zinn, AP via Army Times
PFC Joseph Dwyer, then 26, from Mt. Sinai, NY, carries Ali who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces on March 25, 2003 near the village of Al Faysaliyah, Iraq.
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