Twenty and counting
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
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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.