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Quote of the Day: “They Came in Peace,” October 23, 1983

Forty-one years ago, suicide bombers detonated two truck bombs in Beirut, Lebanon.  At the end of the day, October 23, 1983, 241 US military personnel, 58 French military personnel, and half-a-dozen civilians were dead.  So--praise be--were the two attackers. I was twenty-nine years old.  I remember it clearly. It was an event which set in… Continue reading Quote of the Day: “They Came in Peace,” October 23, 1983