It bothers Ed Brown, a former Navy corpsman, that the anniversary of the Beirut bombing was only nationally recognized every five years. It bothers him that some people — such as a young married couple he met in Georgia — had not heard of the bombing. And it bothered him that his country seemed to learn so little from its mistakes.So on Sept. 24, 35 years after the bombing, Brown set off on a 540 mile trek from Jacksonville, Florida. He aimed to walk 24.1 miles each day, [...]
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