Daryl Peveto

SINGLES: Moments

Navy man AO2 John Mattero Jr. passes the coffin of his cousin, Staff Sgt. Joshua Mattero, who was killed in Iraq last month when one of three improvised explosive devices (IED’s) he was trying to defuse suddenly exploded.
   
Gustavo Sanchez, reaches through the border fence at Border State Park to his wife, Vanessa, who is on the Tijuana side. The couple has been married for just over a year. They are separated by the border: he is a U. S. citizen and she a Mexican citizen. Their access to one another is limited, as she cannot get a visa and he is on parole for a nonviolent crime. They meet here on the weekends as it offers the only place they can see one another in person.
   
Bearing the heat and years of hard living, homeless veterans wait in line for free medical attention from Dr. Charles Marshall, left, of the Veterans of Greater Los Angeles Health Center, during the 14th annual Ventura County Stand Down - a grass-roots intervention program that helps homeless veterans. The three-day event provides food, clothing, lodging, entertainment, and medical and mental services to homeless vets. Marshall added, "It gives these men a chance at medical care that they wouldn't otherwise have or even be able to afford."
     
  
Justin Davis injects crystal meth into his arm, a practice known as slamming, while friend Dave Hines prepares his own needle. Hines, who suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, says he does it because he has to self medicate, while Davis says that he likes it because it lessens his hunger.
   
  
A young girl collapses while dancing wildly in a makeshift Pentecostal church. Though unconscious and bleeding, the churchgoers continue to stand over her and chant. Churchgoer, Victor Samor said this was God's way of releasing evil spirits from her body. Though still the predominant religion in Peru, Catholicism has been on a steady decline since the country gained its independence from Spain. In the rural and poorer areas, many Peruanos have returned to their native religions or have found hope in Protestant religions.