[Photographing Marine Veterans on the Home Front](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/photographing-marine-veterans-on-the-home-front/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0)

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Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer, worked with the reporter Dave Philipps on a report about suicides in the Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment. In 2008, the 2/7 deployed to a wild swath of Helmand Province in Afghanistan and suffered more casualties than any other Marine battalion that year. Below, Mr. Heisler recounts his experiences during the reporting of the article.