It inspired the phrase “thousand yard stare,” which references a blank stare that usually results from a form of traumatization. The Thomas Lea painting was first featured in LIFE Magazine in ...

It was May 15, 1967. "I looked up and saw a Marine with what they call the thousand-yard stare," Johnston recalls, "and I lifted my Leica and snapped his picture. The soldier’s gaze never left ...

Whenever CNN put him up on the split screen, he had a thousand-yard stare. He didn’t look old. He looked ancient. He looked empty. But at least he wasn’t speaking. Because when it was his time ...