I had bad days!
The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase originally coined to describe the limp, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary warrior. The stare is a characteristic of acute stress reaction, also known as combat stress reaction, which is related to posttraumatic stress disorder.
The phrase was popularized when, in 1945, Life magazine published the painting Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare, by World War II artist and correspondent Tom Lea. The painting was a portrait of a young Marine at the Battle of Peleliu in 1944.
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About the real-life Marine who was his subject, Lea said:
He left the States 31 months ago. He was wounded in his first campaign. He has had tropical diseases. He half-sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He will return to attack this morning. How much can a human being endure?


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