Posted on 11/14/2004 12:05:29 PM PST by Pikamax
Smokin' Marine: Publicity a drag
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; Patrick McDonnell is traveling with the Marines in Fallujah; staff writer P.J. Huffstutter in Chicago contributed to this report Published November 14, 2004
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The Marlboro man was angry: He has a war to fight, and he's running out of smokes.
"If you want to write something," he tells a reporter, "tell Marlboro I'm down to four packs, and I'm here in Fallujah till who knows when. Maybe they can send some. And they can bring down the price a bit."
Those are the unfettered 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 drawled on Friday as he crouched--Marlboro firmly in place--inside an abandoned building with his platoon mates, preparing to fight insurgents holed up in a mosque.
"I was just smokin' a cigarette, and someone takes my picture, and it all blows up."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
LOL! Now that's a true American. I suspect he will have all the smokes he wants soon.
I wouldn't even be surprised if new Marine enlistments were to go up. It was a striking image.
If it was up to me, I'd give him more than cigarettes, if you catch my drift.
Tell Cpl Miller that, if he'll provide me an address, I'll send him all the Marlboro's he needs. While I was serving in Vietnam, I, too, ran out of Marlboro's from time to time - and I'm still pissed off about it. You'd think that, after 35 more years to work out the problems, they could get smokes to our fighting men!! They're probably worried about smoking being bad for their health!
Henceforth all smoking areas are dubbed "Marlboro Marine" areas complete with the pic
Be careful diane ~ you sound a little breathless. :):)
BTTT
Just make sure you save a few for the afterglow.
May one gather that you would offer to lit his fire? *g*
Here, let's all let Philip Morris USA know that this young man deserves some smokes!! A link to their customer service:
http://www.pmusa.com/contact_us/contact_us_by_email.asp?action=init
Grrr....I hate having to register...especiall when it is one of those...send you an e-mail ones!
GREAT STORY THOUGH, thanks for posting it!
Cigars?
Actually, I am surprised that he is quoted bitchin about the price of cigarettes.
Back when I was in Europe a carton of Marlboros was $2.10. The Germans were paying me $15.00 a carton. I refused to black market for two years but during my least year, Marlboro paid the rent and more for my off post apartment. I simply needed the money, though I knew it was not right. Back then I was "rationed" more than 8 cartons a month.
Things must be different now. The Troops must be paying full price.
You should have heard Rush last week. I started to wonder about the "real" reason he is getting a divorce. He kept saying "hubba hubba" and "Now that is a real man". Rush is so cute when he finds a new love.
=== "I was just smokin' a cigarette, and someone takes my picture, and it all blows up."
Thanks to the lowlife lusty wenches of cyberspace whose husbands probably encourage their internet habit so as to have a little peace and quiet from an endless stream of inane, immodest and irrational commentary.
Nothing like the rush of Women's Lib and utter Equality one feels when watching married housewives and middle-aged Mrs. Robinson's "lust at work" over some 20-year old boy.
'Bout time the "girls" got equal time, indeed ... you've devolved a long way, Baby.
It's makes me feel a bit old.:)
BOY ??
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