'Marlboro Marine' Struggling to Survive (Update w/pictures)

Cincy Post ^ | 11/26/070 | Luis Sinco

[InsensitiveConservative]

Add me to the ping list too. Thanks.

[jdm]

now look what you did. :O)

5-4-3-2-1...

[texaslil]

Hard to believe after all the publicity the media got our of him no one offered him a job and maybe a nice place to live. Or maybe they did.

[Collier]

Ping me also, if you don’t mind.

[MotleyGirl70]

I thought if it says 'Copyright 2007' on the bottom you can't post it. I guess I can't post it no matter what.

I've seen it posted threads about the 'Marlboro Marine' before.

Oh well, I'm not going to try for the 3rd time, lol ;)

[rockabyebaby]

Would you ping me as well for part deux.......

[roses of sharon]

Do you know if that original “Marlboro Man” pic won any awards?

Thanks!

[Ben Hecks]

Here’s the article on LCPL Miller with some photos.
Regards, Ben

[beaversmom]

Well it will be sad if his story ends badly. I hope he will be able to quit the drink and smoke and get his mind right.

[Star Traveler]

Ah..., I see. In any case, I see the article listed here does have it in the online newspaper (in other words, click the link and go to the paper and you will see the original picture).

Thanks...

[A.A. Cunningham]

Miller screwed up; he's not authorized to wear white trousers.

BLUE-WHITES FOR ENLISTED

Question: I'm getting married in a few months, but it will be over the Christmas holidays (I am a Cpl). I would like to wear white trousers with my blues so I will stand out from the rest of the wedding party. Am I allowed to wear them for this special occasion?

Answer: Per paragraph 2003.1 of the Uniform Regulations, the blue-white dress uniform is an officer/SNCO uniform. Sergeants and below are authorized to wear the blue-white dress uniform for official military ceremonies if the uniform is issued by the command and they are part of a special ceremonial detail (i.e. command color guard, band, funeral detail - being a member of a wedding party does not count). It is not a liberty uniform for sergeants and below. So, the answer to your question is that you should not wear the blue-white dress uniform.

[BARLF]

Thanks Ben

[MotleyGirl70]

Luis Sinco won a Pulizer Prize nomination for the photograph.

James' face became one of the most popular pictures of the faces of our troops in Iraq.

[thefactor]

what a sad story. but there is room for a happy ending. i stopped smoking four weeks ago. i had only smoked socially, but that was enough. i hope he can stop too. this boy needs some help. hopefully he’ll get it. too many do not.

[MotleyGirl70]

Oops...

Pulizer=Pulitzer

[Star Traveler]

Just for the sake of those who just want to click a link, right here (without “showing” it here on Free Republic [which apparently would be a violation...]), here is the link in the Cincinnati Post (where this article appears) for the picture —

http://tinyurl.com/26kmmt

This link, therefore, doesn’t show it here at Free Republic, but in the Cincinnati Post.

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It is an interesting “distinction” on how — even if a picture shows “here” (inside a thread of the Free Republic), but it’s actually coming from another site (like the Cincinnati Post) — it’s still not allowed. That does seem to be sort of an “artificial distinction” of sorts. But, if that’s the way it is — this link *does* (at least) take the viewer *away from* Free Republic, and then onto the Cincinnati Post web site, directly to the picture, itself.

Regards...

P.S. — Don’t know how long the Cincinnati Post will keep it at that link, or on their online site, though. It could disappear whenever their article moves to an archive, or when the article is removed altogether (from their online site).

[wordsofearnest]

A group of us where down in this marine’s neck of the woods last summer. It’s hauntily beautiful and sad at the same time.

He’s in my prayers.

[L,TOWM]

Please let me know when you post Part II.

[STONEWALLS]

...they say that the military has gone on a “no smoking” policy....however, I’m glad Miller found a way to get his hands on some smokes in a combat zone....I sent my nephew a carton and he’s a non smoker....those things are handy trade bait...they used to put a little pack in a box of C-rations.

[Cagey]

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.

I think what really struck the American public is that this he looked like so many photos of Soldiers and Marines from World War II. It just looked like a photo from a Life Magazine cover during the war when the entire country was united.