Oct 23rd 2011 - Remember the Fallen

Today's cigar is unknown. It is a dark maduro with a closed foot and a pigtail cap. I chose this to be today's cigar based on what happened on the 23rd of Oct 1983. On this fateful day the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was bombed. In the attack on the Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II. Let us not forget the fallen and their families on this day. RIP brothers...