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Color Photo of Mental Illness, Lower West Side, New York, by James Maher Photography

I met this man sitting on the street and got his permission to photograph him with a Hasselblad after listening to him speak for about 10 minutes.

This man definitely had some sort of severe mental illness.  He constantly spoke about war and wars that didn't exist, and he sounded very knowledgeable about gibberish.  His speech, shirt, hat and notebook were full or random phrases about war, massacre, the police, tyranny, freedom and such.  I also noticed many newspaper cutouts that were written and drawn on.

But he was also very patriotic as you can see from the flag.  I thought maybe he had fought in Vietnam, but didn't feel it would be appropriate to ask.