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For those not keeping count, it was 20-years ago that this column first appeared in these pages. Through the auspices of the now retired Jake Betz, former editor of The

The bombing remains the largest ­single-day loss of life for Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

For those not keeping count, it was 20-years ago that this column first appeared in these pages. Through the auspices of the now retired Jake Betz, former editor of The

 Chapter Fifteen - The Red Army Shatters the Wehrmacht at Great Human Cost - The Falsification of History That the USA Defeated Nazi Germany During the Second

The Root: The Marines in Beirut August 1982-February 1984 by Eric Hammel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: $19.95) Shortly after 6:20 on the Sunday morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a truck loaded with 12,000 pounds of high explosives wrapped in canisters of flammable gases breached the thin defensive perimeter at Beirut's international airport and hurtled into the lobby of the Marine headquarters building.

In addressing the Six-Day War, CNN accentuated even further its habit throughout the series of distorting events to portray Arabs as powerless victims. In

Marines say they misidentified one of the men in iconic Iwo Jima photo June 23, 2016 FILE - In this Feb 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. The Marine Corps said Monday, May 2, 2016, that it has begun investigating whether it mistakenly identified one of the men shown raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in one of the iconic images of World War II after two amateur history buffs began raising question...