The mentioned poster claimed to have been buried in the rubble of the Marine barracks in Beirut in the 1983 barracks bombing.
Problem with this is, nobody was pulled out alive after noon the same day.
This is documented.
“Beirut in the 1983 barracks bombing....”
Sorry, I should have mentioned I believed what you were saying.
That bombing incident happened the year I joined the Army. A couple months after being recruited and a couple weeks before I reported.
It made me nervous. Many back then expected Reagan to go full on GeorgeW / StorminNorman at that time. I actually thought he should have back then, later in life I came to respect Reagan’s decision not to do so.
The closest I ever came to combat was when I was a Congressional intern in DC the year prior and a plane bounced on top of the bridge over Potomac I often used (via bus) to get there each day - then into the drink. Not quite as well known today, but the DC subway experienced a brutal / fatal dual-car crash nearly at the same time. I don’t recall the specific causes but it snowed a few inches that day which seemed to a MN boy (now WI) like me that the relatively small amount of snow was a big deal there. Needless to say, it took a while to get home to VA from DC that day.
That all happened some months after The Gipper was shot.
I did not doubt what you were saying. It’s just that the BS story you mentioned happened to remind me of a semi-similar story I knew to actually be true.