American History
Related: About this forumJames Blake Miller the Marlboro Marine.
Twenty years ago this month James Miller became known as the Marlboro Marine. Photographer Luis Sinco's picture of him inspired that name.
[The Thousand Yard Stare...one of the expressions I saw from my cousin Bob. He was older than me and went to Vietnam. I was his daughter's godfather. He got married. He moved out of Philly. He got divorced. He had PTSD and never addressed it, never got help.]
Anyway, James Miller grew up in Kentucky and became an ordained minister. He became a Marine and fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah. That's where he was when Sinco took his picture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blake_Miller
Where have I heard that before?
In 2008, Miller was living in his hometown and having difficulty receiving care from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. By 2013, he had reunited with his wife and, with the help of Sinco, has sought psychological help.
It's not new. I'm sure it's as old as war:
https://www.thereporteronline.com/2010/10/21/the-sacrifices-they-made-soldier-artists-portray-struggles-of-military-life/
Docreed2003
(17,849 posts)Thank you for this
1WorldHope
(914 posts)How will we ever spread the meaning of the lesson of war? Why do we keep marching off to death and murder? Both sides, all sides. Pons for rich men to play army with. This has always been so.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,593 posts)...When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing. When the killing stops in one place, it starts in another, but that's okay... 'cause you're killing for your country. But it ain't your country who asks you, it's a few men up top who want it. Old men start it, young men fight it, nobody wins, everybody in the middle dies... and nobody tells the truth!" - [Monterastelli, Stallone & Morrell] Rambo