"Marlboro Marine" Profiled
We've seen the picture.
I've blogged on the response to it, both here and at Lone Star Times.
Now see the face behind the camouflage and the cigarette.
He is Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, a 20 year-old from Jonancy, Kentucky. And he's down to his last four packs of Marlboros. The Los Angeles Times, not may favorite paper in the world, does a halfway decent profile of the guy. I'm not sure that he is as nonchalant about the war or as disinclined to reenlist as the article makes him out to be -- but on the other hand, he sounds just like a lot of our men and women in uniform, folks who are in for a time of service to their country but who then want out so they can pursue the American Dream. In Miller's case, it sounds like that means doing auto body work.
My favorite part of the story? The explanation of the name of his hometown.
God, don't you love this country, and the people who make it great.
I've blogged on the response to it, both here and at Lone Star Times.
Now see the face behind the camouflage and the cigarette.
He is Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, a 20 year-old from Jonancy, Kentucky. And he's down to his last four packs of Marlboros. The Los Angeles Times, not may favorite paper in the world, does a halfway decent profile of the guy. I'm not sure that he is as nonchalant about the war or as disinclined to reenlist as the article makes him out to be -- but on the other hand, he sounds just like a lot of our men and women in uniform, folks who are in for a time of service to their country but who then want out so they can pursue the American Dream. In Miller's case, it sounds like that means doing auto body work.
My favorite part of the story? The explanation of the name of his hometown.
"It's named after my great-great-great grandparents: Joe and Nancy Miller," the Marine explained. "They were the first people in those parts."
God, don't you love this country, and the people who make it great.
posted by Greg at
11/13/2004 01:50:00 PM
