Remembering The Beirut Barracks Bombing 30 Years Later

Families Of Beirut Bomb Victims Mark 30th Anniversary Of First Major Terrorist Attack On US -- FOX News

It was Oct. 21, 1983, when the parents of Lt. William Scott Sommerhof received a letter from the 25-year-old Marine serving in Beirut, who wrote of his excitement to be returning home soon and who had already begun his Christmas shopping.

Two days later, Sommerhof and 240 other U.S. military personnel were killed when suicide bombers detonated two trucks of explosives at military barracks in Lebanon in the first major terrorist attack against the U.S. The attack was the deadliest day for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, and produced the highest death toll for the U.S. military since the first day of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War.

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More News On Remembering The Beirut Barracks Bombing 30 Years Later

Top Marine general, survivors recall 1983 Beirut bombing as early chapter in war on terrorism -- Washington Post/AP
Remembering the Beirut bombing 30 years later -- Dvids/U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe
Obama Mourns Marines Killed in 1983 Beirut Attack -- Voice of America
Obama Honors Beirut Bombing Victims, Families, Comrades -- US Department of Defense
On The 30th Anniversary Of The Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing, The Victims' Families Are Close To Receiving $1.9 Billion -- Andrew Goodman, Forbes
Thirty years later, a bombing in Lebanon still echoes -- BBC
Remembering the Beirut Barracks Bombing -- Tablet
The Beirut Bombing, 30 Years Later -- Daniel Larison, American Conservative
Lessons learned -- and forgotten --from Beirut Marine Barracks bombing -- K.T. McFarland, FOX News
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