This Was Allah’s Will:The Beirut barracks bombing 25 years ago today
The Religion of Peace was raising it’s ugly head to make sure the world took notice. In the name of Allah, they killed our soldiers.
It is all too easy to forget the past. As Israel, a multi-cultural, and diverse democratic nation engages in war with murderers from Hezbalah and Hamas, it is important to remember the 241 Marines who gave their lives on a peacekeeping mission in Beirut, Lebanon. These brave soldiers were rewarded for their sacrifice with a suicide bombing that used 15-20 tons of explosives by the same Hezbalah that Israel today battles. They say that those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. The bombing was done by Hezbalah with the backing of Iran. Sound familiar? We honor the fallen, celebrate their lives but will never forget who was responsible for this-the largest death of US Marines in non-combat operations in World history.
Semper-Fi.
Before
Bombing
After Bombing
Commanding officer Col. Tim Geraghty’s remembrance of the Beirut bombings
Sgt. Melvin Lopez, Jr. at ArlingtonNationalCemetery.net:
On October 23, 1983 at 6:22 a.m., a large delivery truck drove to the Beirut International Airport where the Marine Barracks was located.
After turning onto an access road leading to the compound, the driver rushed through a barbed-wire fence, passed between two sentry posts, crashed through the gate, and slammed into the lobby of the barracks.
The driver detonated explosives with the power equal to more than 12,000 pounds of TNT. The explosion crumbled the four-story building, crushing service members to death while they were sleeping.
The terrorist attack killed 220 Marines and 21 other U.S. service members who were stationed there to help keep the peace in a nation torn by war.
It was the bloodiest day in the Corps’ history since World War II, when Marines fought to secure Iwo Jima.
This seems most appropriate:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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October 23, 2008 - 02:49 PM on October 23rd, 2008
Easy Now; This Bombing 25 years ago has done more damage to Lebanon, than to the US. We Lebanese are very much willing to let that go, cause fundamentally, the People Wanted the Marines to help out.
Lebanon and the US, are ‘natural’ allies.
October 25, 2008 - 10:42 AM on October 25th, 2008
And instead of going to paradise like they had expected the cowards who did this crime are now in a hot and firey place smelling brimestone and shaking hands with a certian fellow with horns and a pitchfork
