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James Blake Miller (born July 10, 1984) is a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War, who fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah and was dubbed the "Marlboro Man" (and the "Marlboro Marine") after an iconic photograph of him with a cigarette was published in newspapers in the United States in 2004.
Located at Northwood Community Park, on the corner of Yale and Bryan in Northwood, Irvine, California, it is the only known memorial in the United States dedicated to listing by name all American service men and women killed in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Local community members assembled annually from 2003 through 2010 to erect a ...
Jack: A Soldier's Story (BBC Panorama TV episode, 07-11-2008) Battle Scarred (TV special, 2009) Obama's War (PBS Frontline TV episode, 2009) Rethink Afghanistan (documentary film, 2009) Armadillo (film, 2010) The Battle for Marjah (HBO documentary film, 2010) Afghanistan - Behind Enemy Lines (British Channel 4 TV episode, 01-02-2010)
The 13 fallen service members were Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, Cpl. Hunter Lopez, Cpl. Daegan W. Page, Cpl ...
Hunter was the first Army journalist to be killed in Afghanistan since the conflict began in October 2001, [3] and he was one of over 1,800 soldiers to be killed in Afghanistan. [9] The 23 other journalists who were killed in Afghanistan since 2001 were civilians who covered various topics ranging from human rights violations to politics. [10]
Plaque adorning the memorial trail. Chapman, his wife Renae and two children [10] lived in Puyallup, Washington. He was buried at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington. [citation needed] There is a Nathan Chapman Memorial Trail in Pierce County, Washington. [11]
For some who fought, the memories of their sacrifices have since become tempered by the recent deterioration of security in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We did it all for nothing,” said Darren Doss, 25, a former Marine who fought in Marjah, Afghanistan, and lost friends in battle. In both wars, context made it tricky to deal with moral challenges.
The garden was designed and built by a group of volunteers in 2005 to commemorate those killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.. Two plaques for the garden's Iraq–Afghanistan Memorial were unveiled in 2018; one describes the dog tags representing American service members killed during the wars, [1] and the other is a bronze poppy wreath commemorating British and Commonwealth service members ...