Joseph Patrick Dwyer (September 28, 1976 – June 28, 2008) was an American soldier, who became famous for a photograph of him helping an ailing
Iraqi boy. Dwyer had enlisted in the
United States Army after
9/11
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and went on to serve as a combat medic in the
3rd Infantry Division.
Dwyer died on June 28, 2008. On June 28, Mr Dwyer, 31, called a taxi to take him to a hospital near his home in Pinehurst, North Carolina, after earlier taking prescription pills and inhaling fumes from a computer cleaner aerosol. When the driver arrived, Mr Dwyer said he was too weak to open the door. Police had to kick it down and found he had collapsed. Within minutes, he had died. He was said to have been suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Soldier in famous photo never defeated 'demons'"
USAToday.com; accessed June 21, 2017.
References
External links
"Soldier returns from Iraq to share story with ROTC students" - Richmond County Daily Journal
"Former War Photographer Remembers Soldier" - CBS News
* ttp://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=3523434 "What Happens When Soldiers Come Home From War?" - Eyewitness News
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1976 births
2008 deaths
People from Manhasset, New York
United States Army personnel of the Iraq War
War photographs
Combat medics
United States Army soldiers
Photographs of children in war
People with post-traumatic stress disorder
Drug-related deaths in North Carolina