More interesting stuff from cracked.com. (No political point to these, just interesting).

6 Images That Ruined the Lives of People They Made Famous

For #3 on this list, I also recommend Flags of our Fathers for a good movie about the Iwo Jima photo.

And:The 6 Most Hilariously Petty Abuses of Military Power

This article reminds me of my grandfather's World War II stories.  He never left the airforce training base in Kansas, but he used to say that you would never believe how many young soldiers died without ever leaving the training base, just by doing stupid show-off hot-doggy stuff in the airplanes.