35 years ago, the Beirut bombing took the lives of 220 US Marines...
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I was five days short of my fourteenth birthday that day. It set us all on full-scale alert. A lot of the casualties were brought to hospitals in West Germany - Wiesbaden, Ramstein (16 miles from me) and Landstuhl (20 miles from me). Keep in mind - this was against the backdrop only seven weeks earlier of the Soviet Union shooting down KAL 007. It was a very tense time to put it mildly.
I later worked for a guy who was in the Marines and while he wasn't there, he had several friends who were in the building. (I later had two coworkers who were in the Khobar Towers bombing as well as a future NCOIC who had hearing problems from that one).
Two other things:
1) at the time of the bombing, it was the largest non-nuclear blast on record
2) It gave President Reagan serious reservations about the pending invasion of Grenada, which they'd been planning since the previous Wednesday.
RIP soldiers
I later worked for a guy who was in the Marines and while he wasn't there, he had several friends who were in the building. (I later had two coworkers who were in the Khobar Towers bombing as well as a future NCOIC who had hearing problems from that one).
Two other things:
1) at the time of the bombing, it was the largest non-nuclear blast on record
2) It gave President Reagan serious reservations about the pending invasion of Grenada, which they'd been planning since the previous Wednesday.
RIP soldiers
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