“Marlboro Man” One of the most famous photos to emerge from the war in Iraq was that of a U.S. Marine, dubbed “the Marlboro Man” by the news media, taken during the battle for Fallujah in 2004. In the photo—praised by the president, military commanders, and national media, among millions of others—the soldier’s face was smeared with dirt and blood, and a cigarette dangled from his lips. Two years after the photo was taken, 21-year-old James Blake Miller was sitting outside his home in Kentucky, holding the famous picture of himself and revealing that he had since received a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder.