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Old 09-08-2004, 02:37 PM   #24
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Originally posted by Jigman
I seem to remember a marine barricks in Lebanon getting bombed a few years back (200+ marines died) and no response. Wasn't that a repub in office then (Reagan for those who are not sure).
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You must have been in college, smoking too much when that happen.

I remember floating off the Lebanon coast, 500 yards behind the USS New Jersey while she was firing full broadsides of nine 16" guns and flattening half the city. I wonder if that looked like "no response" from shore?

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