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I found this interesting picture/question currently posted on OTBL:

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Below is post done on this blog back in February of this year. From what I've read about the war in Iraq, the dead and wounded are coming from red and blue states.

Meet The "Marlboro Man"

The photograph hit the world on Nov. 10, 2004: a close-cropped shot of a U.S. Marine in Iraq, his face smeared with blood and dirt, a cigarette dangling from his lips, smoke curling across weary eyes.

BATTLE SCARS: The photo of the ‘Marlboro Man’ in Fallujah became a symbol of the Iraq conflict when it ran in newspapers across America in 2004. Now the soldier has returned home to Kentucky,where he battles the demons of post-traumatic stress...

Read the whole story:
San Francisco Chronicle