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- My fellow Americans:

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this past Sunday, at 22 minutes after six Beirut time,

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a truck approached the airport on a busy, main road.

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The truck carried some 2,000 pounds of explosives,

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but there was no way our Marine guards could know this.

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Their first warning that something was wrong

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came when the truck crashed through a series of barriers.

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The guards opened fire, but it was too late.

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The truck smashed through the doors of the

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headquarters building in which our Marines were sleeping

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and instantly exploded.

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The four-story concrete building

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collapsed in a pile of rubble.

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More than 200 of the sleeping men

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were killed in that one hideous, insane attack.

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I would like to ask you to pray for these wounded young men

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and to pray for the bereaved families of those

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who gave their lives for our freedom.

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^God bless you, and God bless America.

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