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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Look, raising a teen is tough. You know, it's always been hard to be a teenager and it's always been hard to raise a teenager. |
0:08.0 | I think a lot of parents feel like their kid has broken up with them. |
0:11.0 | But this school year can be different, with Life Kids guide on supporting your teenager. |
0:15.0 | Listen to the Life Kit podcast from NPR. |
0:19.0 | 0.630 and Sunday morning Beirut Lebanon, everybody was asleep. |
0:29.8 | This is Sergeant Stephen Russell, a U.S. Marine who served in Lebanon in 1983. This is from an interview he gave to USA today. |
0:38.0 | I blame myself what happened. |
0:42.0 | A truck containing explosives I blame myself for what happened. |
0:43.0 | A truck containing explosives was driven into the Marine Headquarters Building just before dawn, Beirut Time, today. |
0:50.0 | Then I heard the rev of an engine behind me. |
0:52.0 | Truck filled with high explosives crashed through. Then I heard the rev of an engine behind me. |
0:52.7 | Truck filled with high explosives crashed through the southern gate. |
0:56.6 | Drove into the lobby of what was formerly the aviation safety building. |
1:00.9 | I saw the truck come to a stop dead center of that lobby. |
1:04.3 | Dead silence in the lobby. You could hear a pin drop. |
1:09.7 | And then the next thing I saw was a bright orange flash. |
1:12.8 | The pounds of explosives had been packed into the truck, |
1:20.8 | which was driven through two barriers. |
1:22.6 | The first thing I said was, son of a pitch, he did it. |
1:26.7 | The explosion brought down the building. |
1:28.9 | The Marines asleep inside had little chance. |
1:31.4 | I remember looking on my shoulder, there was one ring back here. |
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