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| Since returning from Iraq, he has suffered many of the classic symptoms of PTSD: difficulty sleeping, recurring nightmares, startling easily, and serious flashbacks. He was diagnosed by a military psychiatrist in mid-2005. |
Since returning from Iraq, he has suffered many of the classic symptoms of PTSD: difficulty sleeping, recurring nightmares, startling easily, and serious flashbacks. He was diagnosed by a military psychiatrist in mid-2005. | ||
| "I want people to know that PTSD is not something people come down with because they are crazy. It's an anxiety disorder, where you've experienced something so traumatic that you're close to death." | |||
| Miller has also come to believes troops should have been withdrawn some time ago. | |||
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| James Blake Miller | |
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| Rank | Lance Corporal |
James Blake Miller, is a U.S. Iraq War veteran, who became an icon know as "the Marlboro Man" after a 2004 close-up photograph of his dirt-smeared, battle-weary face, with a cigarette planted in his mouth was on the cover of hundreds of American newspapers.
Early Years
Miller grew up in Rural Kentucky.
Fallujah
Miller's Marine unit took part in the November 2004 assault on Fallujah — an experience he avoids talking about. Since returning from Iraq, he has suffered many of the classic symptoms of PTSD: difficulty sleeping, recurring nightmares, startling easily, and serious flashbacks. He was diagnosed by a military psychiatrist in mid-2005.
Marlboro Man
Miller's photograph was taken by Los Angeles Times photographer Luis Sinco, and was published in more than 100 newspapers; it was also singled out by former anchor Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News.
PTSD
Since returning from Iraq, he has suffered many of the classic symptoms of PTSD: difficulty sleeping, recurring nightmares, startling easily, and serious flashbacks. He was diagnosed by a military psychiatrist in mid-2005.
"I want people to know that PTSD is not something people come down with because they are crazy. It's an anxiety disorder, where you've experienced something so traumatic that you're close to death."
Miller has also come to believes troops should have been withdrawn some time ago.
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