Waiting for Hell as the Lights Go Out in the Middle East
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A Wounded Marine being Rescued from the Marine Barracks in Beirut, October 23rd, 1983 Thank you for reading Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal . This post is public so feel free to share it. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack on the US Marine peacekeeping forces in their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and the barracks of the French 1st and 9th Parachute Regiments. Both barracks were driven into by massive truck bombs early that Sunday morning. Two-hundred-forty-one U.S. Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers, as well as 58 French paratroopers died that day. Many more were wounded. In 2001 I served as Chaplain for the Marine Battalion that was at Beirut, the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. Our Chief Hospital Corpsman was a young Navy Corpsman who was wounded at Beirut. I cannot forgot that day. I was a young Army Lieutenant attending a course at Fort Knox. I couldn’t sleep and was watching CNN when the news broke about the attack, those images were burned into my mind and I never expected to serve with that unit 18 years later. When I was at Camp LeJeune on my second tour there, I would visit the memorial to those killed in Beirut. It was always a sobering experience to stand there and read the names of our fallen. Most of the dead were close to my age at the time of their deaths. Young men on a mission of peace, killed by the predecessors of the terrorists who are threatening to unleash hell today.
Waiting for Hell as the Lights Go Out in the Middle East
Waiting for Hell as the Lights Go Out in the…
Waiting for Hell as the Lights Go Out in the Middle East
A Wounded Marine being Rescued from the Marine Barracks in Beirut, October 23rd, 1983 Thank you for reading Dedicated to the Proposition that All Men are Created Equal . This post is public so feel free to share it. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack on the US Marine peacekeeping forces in their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and the barracks of the French 1st and 9th Parachute Regiments. Both barracks were driven into by massive truck bombs early that Sunday morning. Two-hundred-forty-one U.S. Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers, as well as 58 French paratroopers died that day. Many more were wounded. In 2001 I served as Chaplain for the Marine Battalion that was at Beirut, the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. Our Chief Hospital Corpsman was a young Navy Corpsman who was wounded at Beirut. I cannot forgot that day. I was a young Army Lieutenant attending a course at Fort Knox. I couldn’t sleep and was watching CNN when the news broke about the attack, those images were burned into my mind and I never expected to serve with that unit 18 years later. When I was at Camp LeJeune on my second tour there, I would visit the memorial to those killed in Beirut. It was always a sobering experience to stand there and read the names of our fallen. Most of the dead were close to my age at the time of their deaths. Young men on a mission of peace, killed by the predecessors of the terrorists who are threatening to unleash hell today.