Did Iconic Photo Drive Soldiers Death?
(Newser) – A photo turned an American medic in Iraq into a hero, showing him carrying an Iraqi child to safety. But the photographer, Warren Zinn, wonders whether it also contributed to his suicide. Joseph Dwyer suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Iraq; Zinn worries, in the Washington Post, whether his fame exacerbated his pain. “I knew this was a moment that the world needed to see—a moment of American heroism,” Zinn writes about snapping the picture. But it was an isolated moment: When Dwyer returned home, “he could never leave the battlefield behind,” imagining Iraqi attacks.
