Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing Anniversary

[Wishboned]

27 years ago today, the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was attacked by a suicide bomber. 241 servicemen were killed, including the largest number of Marines killed in a single day attack since Iwo Jima.

[Sooner in Tampa]

SEMPER FI

R.I.P Heroes!!!

[olevetonahill]

I have a good friend who was In the Marines at the time and Injured during that attack

[VeeJay]

God Bless them.

[bluedogok]

I have a good friend who was In the Marines at the time and Injured during that attack
My uncle was shipped out a week before it happened. He always wondered why.

[GKeeper316]

oorah

[Cornfed]

My Drill Instructor was there.

[StoopTroup]

That still pisses me off to this day.

I have very little in the tank for Lebanese in the US that think their Country is a decent place. I wish they could have kept Hamas out of there but IMO that Country is out of control and a place I'll never visit in my life time. I grew up with a few Lebanese Families who I considered very nice hard working folks. They have lost their Country forever IMO.

The Day the Marines got hit changed my opinion of that place immediately.

God Bless the Fallen.

[Wishboned]

I'm bumping this for the 31st anniversary of the attack. This attack was what initially gave me the desire to serve my country. Six weeks after the attack I was enrolled in the delayed entry program, and in August of 1984 I left Oklahoma for four years of jumping out of planes and playing in the woods. And the jungle. And the desert.

I pray their souls rest easy despite the fact that their attackers never received the justice that was promised.

[Turd_Ferguson]

RIP, Marines.

[Sooner in Tampa]

Many have argued that this event is the first in a series of events that led to 9/11...

F@cking Marines weren't even allowed to lock and load...

Semper Fi and R.I.P to my brothers and sisters!