October 23, 1983 30 Years Later
It’s been 30 years since two truck bombs killed 306 people (241 American servicemen, 58 French servicemen, 6 civilians & 2 suicide bombers) and injured 75 others. I was a young soldier in an Armor battalion in Germany that Sunday morning and remember hearing U.S. President Ronald Reagan deploring the attack and pledging to keep a military force in Lebanon. We expected that to mean a real US Army presence and waited for our orders to move out and help our Marine brothers. Instead, the US turned tail and ran for home.
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More: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing
The next time you hear any so-called conservative mention Benghazi, be sure to remind them of one of President Reagan’s least impressive moments from a presidency full of error and folly. And keep in your memory the hundreds of people who paid a price that really was preventable.
