Portraits of two lives claimed

Emma Brown and Christian Davenport

An Army psychologist from Woodbridge who had just moved to Fort Hood one day before Thursday's mass shooting and a physician's assistant from Maryland who volunteered to help soldiers returning from war were among those killed in the Texas tragedy.

Maj. L. Eduardo Caraveo, a 52-year-old psychologist who was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan with a unit working to help treat service members suffering from combat stress, was shot and killed, said his son, also named Eduardo Caraveo.

A Mexican immigrant who came to the United States as a teenager knowing very little English, the elder Caraveo was determined to make something of himself, his family and friends said. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, making him the first in his family to go to college, and he received a doctorate of psychology at the University of Arizona.

"He was a role model for me," said son Eduardo, 31, of Tucson.

Caraveo had worked for more than 15 years for the federal Bureau of Prisons, a job that took him from Tucson, Ariz., to Victorville, Calif., and eventually to the Washington area, where his son said he was working to develop a treatment program for sex offenders. He also had launched a business, "Yes, I Do," that offered marriage seminars for couples who couldn't afford individual counseling, according to his Web site.

He became a Medical Service Corps officer in the Army Reserve a decade ago to add to his federal service and improve his retirement benefits, said Rudy Valenzuela, a friend of Caraveo's for 25 years.

After his first marriage ended in divorce, Caraveo remarried five years ago, Valenzuela said, and was the happiest he had ever been. He lived with his wife, their 3-year-old son and her two daughters in a subdivision of new homes in Woodbridge. A third son, Jose Armando Caraveo, 25, is a student at the University of Arizona.

"All he ever talked about and cared about was his family," Valenzuela said. "He never liked to leave. He was happy being at home. But he understood what it meant to serve his country."

The victim from Maryland, Army Reserve Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, of Havre de Grace, was a mother of two who worked as a physician's assistant at a Veterans Administration facility in Baltimore and volunteered with a program set up by the Maryland National Guard to help reserve soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan reacclimate to civilian life.

She was especially interested in helping female veterans, said Lt. Col. Mike Gafney, who runs the reintegration program. It was a topic "that was very dear to her heart," he wrote in an e-mail. "In addition to creating the training, she loved meeting with and helping women soldiers through the long and many times lonely path they had to face after coming back from the war."

Warman had been deployed to Iraq for medical duty, which gave her credibility when it came to discussing the aftereffects of war, said Arlene Gerson, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who worked with Warman at the reintegration program.

"As opposed to someone standing up there lecturing about what they learned from books, she was able to really talk about post-traumatic stress disorder and how it can be treated," Gerson said.

Gerson accompanied her on a trip to Fort Dix, N.J., where Warman told returning veterans about the "importance of them addressing the issues that will likely come up as a part of their reintegration." She told the soldiers "not to be ashamed of getting help because it's there and important to get," Gerson said.

"She talked about taking care of yourself so you can take care of the people around you and continue to serve your country," Gerson said.

Warman's sister, Margaret Yaggie of Roaring Branch, Pa., said she "had a calling, and she was fulfilling it."