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October 23, 1983 30 Years Later

1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing
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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 …