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...trapped for four hours. "First I was screaming a lot, but then I got worried about losing my air. Finally I just passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding off the concrete slab just before it crashed, the stunned Marine wound up sitting upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath in Bloody Beirut | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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