The painting is meant to represent the shock and genuine post-traumatic stress soldiers experienced after ... their own take on the Thousand Yard Stare meme. Used as a reaction meme, fans laughed ...

He is one of hundreds of ­ vulnerable children so traumatised by the siege of Aleppo that they have been left with what soldiers call “the 1,000-yard stare”. Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon ...