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Photographed on assignment for The New York Times


A grief-stricken Renee Waltz gets a kiss from a family friend at a memorial service for her husband, Staff Seargent Mark Waltz, a post-traumatic stress disorder sufferer who killed himself in April. Ms. Waltz said her husband was reluctant to seek treatment after returning from Iraq in 2004 because he thought a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder would cost him his rank.



Mia Sagahon, the former finacee of Seargent Walter Padilla, a Iraq veteran who killed himself in early April, poses with his burial flag on a swing from her childhood in Colorado Springs, Colo. Padilla suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.



Sagahon sits with Padilla's burial flag on her childhood swing set. Sergeant Padilla had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder at Fort Carson Army base, where concerns over the treatment of returning soldiers struggling with the condition, compelled members of Congress to ask the Government Accountability Office to reassess the military's mental health policies.



A soldier who wished to remain unidentified browses through his massive personal medical file at a coffee shop in Colorado Springs, Colo. The man suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from duty in Iraq. He feels officials at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, Colo., are not treating his condition.


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