Posted on 11/12/2004 10:25:33 PM PST by Ex-Dem
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 an intruding 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 drawls on Friday as he crouches -- Marlboro firmly in place -- 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."
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free advertising... I'm sure they'll send a bunch
Someone found him!!!
Smokes ping.
Guys gonna be swimming in butts soon.
You wanna make book he'll get about a thousand packs of Marlboros and as many marriage proposals in the mail this week? :D
The end of the article...
And he shrugs off suggestions he may cash in on his fleeting stardom. He has no plans to hire an agent.
"When I get out, I just want to chill out a little bit," he explains. "Go back to my house, farm a little bit, do some mechanical stuff around the house and call it a day."
Oh, and one more thing: "I'll just sit on my roof and smoke a cigarette."
Heh heh..humble guy ain't he? I would peg him as a Bud Man myself.
Good god..what I wouldn't give to be 20 again..sigh. Those were the days..bombs, blood, and guts in Somalia. (again..sigh)
I'd put good money on it!
I'll make sure he has enough to smoke, and plenty extra to trade.
Semper Fi Lcpl Miller.
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You knew right away he was no "blue stater"
Someone freepmail his address and I'll send a box of Arturo Fuente's Hemingway Classics his way.
Get the man some smokes!
Oh well this picture may end being as famous as the devils den the spanish loyalist shot in 36.
I'm anti-smoking, but I'll buy the man all the smokes (and drinks) he wants...
Good Article thaks for posting it. WoW. Three pack a day habit. I thought me bad with a pack a day habit.
I wonder if Marlboro will respond to the man?
Liberals would go nuts if we started a "Smokes for Troops" campaign.
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