It was springtime 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, just barely a month after the bombing of the U.S. Embassy. A young U.S. Marine corporal from Providence paid a visit to an even younger U.S. Marine ...

A hellishly long day in Beirut, Lebanon. Harris shared a room with eight other U.S. Marines at the airport. He was in the barracks on Oct. 23, 1983, as a heavy-duty Mercedes flat-bed truck laden ...