{"id":118750,"date":"2021-10-23T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118750"},"modified":"2021-10-23T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T20:20:46","slug":"1983-beirut-barracks-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118750","title":{"rendered":"1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-118751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/beirut-bombing-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/beirut-bombing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/beirut-bombing-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/beirut-bombing-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/beirut-bombing.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<ins datetime=\"2021-10-23T16:42:22+00:00\">\u2018And the building was gone.\u2019<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, 23 Oct 1983, a 19-ton yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck entered a public parking lot at the heart of Beirut International Airport. The lot was adjacent to the headquarters of the U.S. 8th Marine Regiment\u2019s 1st Battalion, where some 350 American service members slept in a four-story concrete aviation administration building. <\/p>\n<p>Battalion Landing Team 1\/8 was the ground element of the 1,800-man 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU), which had deployed to Lebanon a year earlier as part of a multinational peacekeeping force also comprising French, Italian and British troops. <\/p>\n<p>At 6:20 in the morning, the suicide bomber drove the truck loaded with two thousand pounds of explosives into the lobby of the Marine barracks and detonated, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers. It was one of the most powerful and lethal car bombs ever detonated.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the deadliest day for the Corps since the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/10\/22\/and-the-building-was-gone-veterans-remember-beirut-bombing-on-38th-anniversary\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Republican Rep. Greg Pence introduced a House Resolution in 2020 to designate October 23 as a National Day of Remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>That resolution never made it out of committee.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas. Hat tip to Roh-Dog for the gentle reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018And the building was gone.\u2019 On Sunday morning, 23 Oct 1983, a 19-ton yellow Mercedes stake-bed &hellip; <a title=\"1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118750\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,482,184,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beirut","category-lebanon","category-marine-corps","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118758,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118750\/revisions\/118758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}