"In memorial:Those lost on Oct 1983. " Topic
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| Apache 6 | 24 Oct 2016 8:18 a.m. PST |
Late post as I was traveling, yesterday, was the anniversary of the 1983 car bombings which killed 241 U.S. Marines, Sailors and Soldiers and 55 French Paratroopers. Posted in remembrance. Semper Fidelis. |
| Justin Penwith | 24 Oct 2016 9:06 a.m. PST |
Six years after the event, I had the misfortune of assisting a gentleman who had to sort through the belongings of one of the Marines who perished in this tragedy. He had been storing the belongings all that time, in the vain hope it was a mistake and the Marine was still alive, and yet to return home. |
| ashauace6970 | 24 Oct 2016 9:07 a.m. PST |
Glad to see this.
Gets lost in all the noise
Perhaps a banner…… |
Darkest Star Games  | 24 Oct 2016 9:59 a.m. PST |
Hear here, Apache 6! Thank you for posting this and allowing us to remember and pay our respects. |
Joes Shop  | 24 Oct 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
Agreed. Lost friends that day. |
| charles popp | 24 Oct 2016 10:59 a.m. PST |
Yes,sad messed up situation those guys where in. Even sadder and what gets forgotten by us is that Lebanon was at one time a beautiful prosperous land, Beirut was called the Rivera of the Middle East. A country ruled by Christians open to all until the PLO "moved" in and wreaked the place. |
 javelin98 | 24 Oct 2016 4:25 p.m. PST |
I work with a Marine vet who was there and left just a few weeks before the bombing. He's not kind in his sentiments towards Iran and their jihadi puppets in Lebanon. |
| goragrad | 24 Oct 2016 10:53 p.m. PST |
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| ITALWARS | 26 Oct 2016 2:01 a.m. PST |
i was very sad remenbering this event….but is always the same thing ith those people…peacekeeping mission countered by terrorists and, in anyway, by people that do not desrve anything…in ME societies the only way is the show and use of force ..like IDF that certainly know better than everybody those milieux |
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gets roads for his Team Yankee set-up.