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30. It wasn't for no reason

Mon Jun 23, 2025, 02:23 AM

21 hrs ago

It was to counteract the bad news of losing 241 U.S. servicemen to truck bombs in Beirut on Oct. 23, 1983. Two days later, we invaded Grenada.

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