On the 40th Anniversary of Iran's Marine Barracks Bombing
A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle
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A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle
“The worst part for me is that nobody remembers,” Mark Nevells said last year on the anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle and afterward for five days, Nevells and other Marines had dug through the rubble for the bodies of the men they had served with. One of the first Marines on the scene heard voices coming from underneath the rubble. “Get us out. Don’t leave us.” Before the attack, the NSA intercepted a message from Iranian intelligence ...