The story is a little bit long, but well worth the time to read it. Many remember the young Marine who was pictured right after a battle, smoking a cigarette, and this story takes up what happened to him later. He was discharged from the marines suffering the effects of Post Trauma Stress Syndrome, and is back home in Kentucky, having his life fall apart there.
The young marine lighted a cigarette and let it dangle. White smoke wafted around his helmet. His face was smeared with war paint. Blood trickled from his right ear and the bridge of his nose.
Momentarily deafened by cannon blasts, he didn't know the shooting had stopped. He stared at the sunrise.
His expression caught my eye. To me, it said: terrified, exhausted and glad just to be alive. I recognized that look because that's how I felt too.
I raised my camera and snapped a few shots.
With the click of a shutter, Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, a country boy from Kentucky, became an emblem of the war in Iraq. The resulting image would change two lives -- his and mine.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...e=1&track=rss
Two Lives Blurred Together By A Photo (The Marlboro Marine)
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