I wish we would have dropped a Nuke on them back then and be done with it...nothing has changed in 40 years over there...
They didn't want any part of Reagan tho
They didn't want any part of Reagan tho
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Hard to believe it has been 40 years. If you are interested in how it all happened there is a great book "Guests of the Ayatollah" by Mark Bowden (same guy who wrote Black Hawk Down) It's a long one because practically chronicles every last one of the 444 days they spent in captivity. But Bowden makes it a very interesting and compelling read. -
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I think this song is what I remember most from that era. Seems like it played daily on KTSA.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKPulvTrKr4"]A MESSAGE TO KHOMEINI by Roger Hallmark and The Thrasher Brothers - YouTube[/ame]Comment
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I was a young Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne then. I sat at Green Ramp on Pope Air Force Base for two days rigged and ready. We were itchin for a fight with Iran. President Carter gave the order to stand down, he didn't have it in him to get any of us killed is what we were told. I'll never forgive him for that. That's a stain on our country that won't go away. If I ever got the chance to meet him face to face I'd tell him how wrong I thought he was. We'd have wrecked shop over there.Comment
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40 years ago I missed out on going out with those guys and was going nut the whole time.Comment
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Unfortunately we sowed the seeds that led to it. Had we not orchestrated the coup of their democratically elected (and secular) government in '53, Khomeini likely would have never risen to power.Comment
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