MacArthur 5K run to benefit vets in crisis
Photo credit: Photo by Kevin P Coughlin | May 4, 2011-Christopher J. Delaney of 9-1-1 Veterans and Suffolk County Marine Bureau police officer Jamie Scandariato, far right, stand next to a painting of Army medic Pfc. Joe Dwyer carrying a wounded Iraqi child while under fire at an unveiling ceremony at MacArthur Airport Tuesday May 3, 2011. Pfc. Dwyer, who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), committed suicide not long after the Pulitzer Prize winning photo the painting is based on was taken. Islip Town officials were present at MacArthur to annouce the second annual 5K run at the airport to beneit Long Island's veterans. Scandariato's uncle, Angelo Mariono of New Hampshire, is the artist. The painting will hang in MacArthur's main terminal for one year, and hopefully hang in the Pentagon one day.(photo by Kevin P. Coughlin)
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Joseph Dwyer didn't want to die. Like so many post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers, the former Army combat medic took a fatal overdose of drugs to get "some peace -- to forget the horrors of war," his older brother Brian Dwyer recalled.
Dwyer was on hand Wednesday for the launch of this year's Long Island MacArthur Airport 5K Run for Veterans. The race, which is set for June 4, benefits...
