The day is forever etched in his mind. Its date permanently tattooed on his left forearm.Emanuel Simmons was a 24-year-old, lance corporal with H&S Company, 1st Batallion, 8th Marines, when he and other Marines and sailors arrived in Beirut, Lebanon on Memorial Day, 1983 and stepped off the USS El Paso, a Charleston class amphibious cargo ship.The Americans were part of an international peace keeping mission. In reality, they walked into the middle of a sectarian civil war [...]
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