The Best Stories You've nEver Read #25

Two Lives Blurred Together: Photographer Luis Sinco's account of his relationship with the subject of his iconic photo, Marine Lance Cpl James Blake Miller.

Los Angeles Times photographer Luis Sinco took a picture in Iraq three years ago that captured the nation's attention. It came to be known as the "Marlboro Marine," a battle weary soldier with a cigarette dangling from his lips. What's happened to that soldier since then? It's not a pretty picture.

-- Dick Weiss