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Brian Kirkpatrick, a 6th and 8th grade history teacher at Bolden Elementary/Middle School in Beafort, S.C., is one of few survivors of the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. On Oct. 23,1983, a suicide bomber driving a truck rammed into the barracks with 12,000 pounds of high explosives detonating one of the largest non-nuclear bombings in history. There were about 300 U.S. service members in the barracks at the time of the bombing, 241 of those service members were killed due injuries sustained from the bombing.
| Date Taken: | 10.11.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 10.23.2013 11:51 |
| Photo ID: | 1038752 |
| VIRIN: | 131011-M-EK666-001 |
| Resolution: | 4224x2904 |
| Size: | 1.87 MB |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SC, US |
| Hometown: | YALE, MI, US |
| Web Views: | 250 |
| Downloads: | 23 |
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