{"id":47164,"date":"2021-10-23T04:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=47164"},"modified":"2021-10-23T04:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:17:01","slug":"in-memoriam-the-beirut-barracks-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/in-memoriam-the-beirut-barracks-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: The Beirut Barracks Bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47166\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/beirut-1983.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inteltoday.org\/2021\/10\/23\/on-this-day-the-beirut-barracks-bombings-october-23-1983-hezbollah-or-islamic-jihad\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">On This Day in History \u2014 The Beirut Barracks Bombings<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><em>Two suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team \u2013 BLT 1\/8), the death toll were 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since World War II\u2019s Battle of Iwo Jima, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Armed Forces since the first day of the Vietnam War\u2019s Tet Offensive, the deadliest single terrorist attack on American citizens in general prior to the September 11 attacks, and the deadliest single terrorist attack on American citizens overseas.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in History \u2014 The Beirut Barracks Bombings &nbsp; Two suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs. In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team \u2013 BLT 1\/8), the death toll were 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,3675,2726,6096,2990,5705,272],"tags":[9606,9687,9688,9368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}