Portraits Of War

Victor Juhasz, an artist with the Society of Illustrators in New York, working on a drawing of Staff Sergeant Alejandro Jaurequi at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Marcus Yam for The New York Times

Portraits Of War -- New York Times

ONE day late last month, a group of artists from the Society of Illustrators in New York assembled at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center here. Armed with pads, pencils and cameras, they had two hours to carry out their mission: making drawings of service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. A naval petty officer shuttled them through the wards to patients who’d agreed to participate. And before long, two of the artists — Victor Juhasz, known for his satirical drawings in Rolling Stone, and Jeff Fisher, an illustrator from Long Island — found themselves in a room with Alejandro Jauregui, 27, an Army staff sergeant who barely three weeks earlier had lost both legs to a makeshift bomb in Afghanistan.

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