This site is dedicated to PFC. Dwyer and all returning soldiers who suffer from PTSD.

Please remember to keep all our troops in your prayers.
Above: Iraq with comrades
There Wedding Day
PFC Joseph Dwyer
A young Joseph on a care free summer day
Joseph with the family whom he loved
Joseph with his daughter Meagan and wife     
                             Matina
Joseph, unselfishly runs to help an Iraqi family he      
                      doesn't even know.  
Our Hero hoped that his ICONIC Photo would
help others that were suffering from PTSD.
Joseph carrying injured Iraqi boy to safety
          08 December 2008
   Street Dedication Ceremony
Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) Showing there                                           Suffolk County Police Emerald Society                                           Vietnam Veterans show there support
     support for PFC Dwyer
Mount Sinai and Miller Place Fire Dept.
Suffolk County Police Emerald Society
The Dwyer Family and Town of Brookhaven       
                        Officials
Suffolk County Police Aviation Unit with               
              ceremonial fly over
30 MARCH 2009
                    THE UNVEILING OF
'DEFINING MOMENT'
'DEFINING MOMENT':   THE PULITZER AWARD WINNING PHOTO TAKEN BY  
WARREN ZINN OF THE ARMY TIMES WAS TURNED INTO THIS MASTER PIECE BY
WORLD RENOWNED ARTIST ANGELO MARINO. ANGELO MARINO A LONG ISLAND
NATIVE AND DISABLED AIR FORCE VETERAN FROM THE KOREAN WAR DONATED
HIS TALENT AND TIME TO HONOR JOSEPH AND HIS SACRIFICE FOR ALL OF US.
THE PAINTING STANDS FOUR FEET TALL BY TWO FEET WIDE AND PROJECTS
EVERYTHING A SOLDIER IS AND WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR. AN OIL REPLICA
IS NOW HUNG IN THE WILLIAM ROGERS LEGISLATORS BUILDING IN SUFFOLK
COUNTY.
'ABOVE: JOE'S DAUGHTER YAWNING
AFTER THE CEREMONY DEDICATED TO
HER DAD.

Above: Even as a kid Joe showed his patriotism, look at
his shirt