(ht: Michelle Malkin) - the LA times gives us more about the marine who found himself the topic of conversation all over the media, including this blog. Apparently, he's doing fine (except for the fact that he's almost out of Marlboros):
FALLOUJA, Iraq — The Marlboro man is angry: He has a war to fight and he's running out of smokes.
"If you want to write something," he tells an intruding reporter, "tell Marlboro I'm down to four packs and I'm here in Fallouja till who knows when. Maybe they can send some. And they can bring down the price a bit."
Such are the unvarnished sentiments of Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, 20, a country boy from Kentucky who has been thrust unwittingly and somewhat unwillingly into the role of poster boy for a war on the other side of the world from his home on the farm.
"I just don't understand what all the fuss is about," Miller drawls Friday as he crouches inside an abandoned building with his platoon mates, preparing to fight insurgents holed up in yet another mosque. "I was just smokin' a cigarette and someone takes my picture and it all blows up."
There you have it.
HEY!! i had some problems with 9-11 and im really sad
tear...tear
Posted by: Crystal | April 26, 2006 at 08:47 AM
that doesnt make sense if our soldiers want to smoke let them smoke damnit!.. they are there doing shit that noone else here has the guts to do. we all sit here with the guts to critize our men and women in uniform but we dotn have the guts to go to the places of war and help fight. our soldiers should be allowed to do whatever they want because they are away from home, they have to watch their friends and comrads die and they have to go through the stress of getting by everyday no matter what it takes while at the same time wondering if the people they love are still at home and faithful to them. give them all the cigs and cloves aand cigars they want.
Posted by: lelu | November 06, 2006 at 09:44 AM