The huge blocks of names are reminiscent of the Vietnam memorial wall. But this memorial has an added element, a back side with pictures and brief text of events dating back to 1983,
The other side has a timeline of the War on Terror, which goes back as far as 1983, covering: 1983 Beirut bombings on U.S. military barracks when 241 American military personnel were killed by a truck bomb while stationed in Beirut, Lebanon;
Gulf War Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm;
the Battle of Mogadisu in 1993 in Somalia;
Bosnia intervention in the 1990s;
USS Cole bombing in Yemen in 2000;
September 11 attacks;
War on Terror operations in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom Sentinal);
War on Terror operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn and Operation Iron Resolve);
the Ft. Hood, Texas shooting;
the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya;
the Boston Marathon bombings;
the shooting at the Chattanooga, Tennessee military recruiting station;
and the terrorist attack at a health center in San Bernardino.
https://www.rearareasupport.org/memorial.html
September 16th and 17th 2016
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A friend of mine was injured and received the Purple Heart from the 1996 terrorist attack of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.
ReplyDeleteShit, he must have been through a hairy effing incident!
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