Comments on: Remembering the Beirut barracks bombing

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Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:33:35 +0000

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By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:50:09 +0000

Thanks for the time you spent to post this event. We seem to forget these horrific events with time. My 3rd cousin was one of the men killed. David Bousum from Michigan. I remember hearing about is growing up, but I was only 6 at the time he died. Thanks for the Blog!

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:20:12 +0000

Nothing makes me angrier than politicians displaying military incompetence (yes, it’s happened on both sides of the aisle). Personally, I think several squadrons of B-52′s should have been brought in to level Beirut. If that’s hardcore, so be it. War is war and you can’t change what it is. My point is that when you go to war, you do everything in your power to win it, and I mean everything…

By: JW M

JW M — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:40:05 +0000

Also don’t forget the others from the 22nd MAU that came home early. My cousin, Tom Evans, was a casualty of “taking the low ground” at the air port while the terrorists set their mortars on the surrounding hills. Tom’s wife and two month old son (and the rest of the extended family) still miss him.

By: Larry Sheldon

Larry Sheldon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:50:58 +0000

“Compassion”? Sure. Measure for measure what they show others.

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