Two Lives Blurred Together By A Photo - Marlboro Man


	Two Lives Blurred Together By A Photo - Marlboro Man

Dazey

11-11-2007 2:11 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/109abdb4-7469-4227-9ca7-a4813a505e8a/BA8CA4F4-D609-4A84-82A1-ADCA1D1E622C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><H1>Two lives blurred together by a photo</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.latimes.com/img/809AFB46-0728-42F3-A8FE-8682C8F19D48" alt="The Marlboro Marine" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><DIV><DIV>This is the photo that made Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller -- the "Marlboro Marine" -- famous. <A target="flashvideo" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-brightcoveplayer-player-day-one-autostart,1,502794.blurb"><SPAN class="center_label">Video</SPAN></A></DIV>
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					The young marine  lighted a cigarette and let it dangle. White smoke wafted around his helmet. His face was smeared with war paint. Blood trickled from his right ear and the bridge of his nose.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><DIV>
Momentarily deafened by cannon blasts, he didn't know the shooting had stopped. He stared at the sunrise.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><DIV>
His expression caught my eye. To me, it said: terrified, exhausted and glad just to be alive. I recognized that look because that's how I felt too.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><DIV>
I raised my camera and snapped a few shots.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/la-na-marlboro11nov11,1,5154619.story?coll=la-news-marlboromarine&ctrack=1&cset=true"><DIV>
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. The resulting image would change two lives -- his and mine.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BA8CA4F4-D609-4A84-82A1-ADCA1D1E622C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>