Okay I'll bite, who and what is the guy in the photo?
That is an actual photo of Al Gore during the Viet Nam war. His father was a Senator, and he went over long enough to get his ticket punched for his future political career. He went out for a couple of photo ops, and this one, with him standing in such a way that his rifle was pointing directly at his forehead, was actually posted on his Presidential campaign web site until it became such a joke that they pulled it.