What happened 25 years ago today?

[underpants]

An aerial view of the United States embassy in Beirut, 18 April 1983, after a bomb destroyed part of the building. The US embassy in Lebanon commemorated the 25th anniversary Friday of the bombing of the diplomatic mission in Beirut in which 52 people were killed.
(AFP/US NAVY-HO/File)

[baldguy]

1. For Reagan, protecting our Marines was secondary to showing the flag to those Ay-rab heathens

Uninvited, in their own country.

[underpants]

5. *

This wasn't the barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines.

THAT was 6 months later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

[Maine-i-acs]

2. Then Reagan started bombing the shit out of Shiite civilians.

From the ships in the Meditteranean. A friend of mine was on a battleship and told of launching VW beetle-sized shells into basically civilian neighborhoods.

Poorly-focused retaliation for a terrorist act ... sound familiar?

[NNN0LHI]

3. And 13 years ago tomorrow ...

The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

[underpants]

6. Yep

I was on my way to an econ test when I saw it. I didn't understand that I was seeing a 10 story building having been ripped apart.

[chelsea0011]

4. Thanks for reminding us that before the war on terror, there was terror.

Stopping terrorism is impossible, but as long as we need oil, we need a war on something.