Jenny Eliscu, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and host of “Left of Center” on Sirius Radio, discusses the real life of the James Blake Miller, the “Marlboro Man” in the iconic photo from the 2nd Battle of Fallujah, the War Party’s spin which used him as a poster boy and the reality of the real man – broken by and opposed to the war, his PTSD symptoms, survivors guilt and the difficulty of getting help from the VA.

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Jenny Eliscu is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where she has worked since 1999.