[b]The 2000 Yard Stare[/b] is a painting by [[World War II]] war correspondent "Thomas Calloway Lea III":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Lea_III] who had traveled extensively in the Pacific theater. 

The painting depicts a nameless [[united states marine corps|U.S. Marine]] at the [[Battle of Peleliu]] with the eponymous stare. The marine is seen wearing [[fatigues]] with his [[open jacket|jacket open]] and a [[torn clothes|tear]] [[torn jacket|on the left shoulder]], his [[combat helmet|helmet]] [[dent]]ed and [[tilted headwear|askew]]. In the background is a war-torn landscape, other marines, a [[tank]] and three [[airplane|planes]].

The phrase "[[thousand yard stare]]" was popularized after the painting was published in [i]Life[/i] magazine, though it was not referred to with that title in the 1945 article.

* !asset #13755782: Original painting

h4. See also

* [[sanpaku]]
* [[thousand yard stare]]

h4. External Links

* "Wikipedia: Thousand-yard stare":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
the two-thousand yard stare