[BlueDragon]

Baltiriotsamore...

just another neighborhood

among greater Baltidishu.

And these folks ain’t even mooselimbs

Let’s hope nobody tips off the press

so they can be present to meet the Marines

down at the beach

with klieg lights and tv cameras like the

Billy Jeff Clinton Admin did.

To the Marine Corp landing at Mogadishu

[huldah1776]

I don’t know where I was at that time, being an idiot probably, but I had to read about it. Good article actually, and mentions Defense Secretary Dick Cheney being angry. As a former Marine mom, my blood pressure is blood pressure just went through a store window.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/10/world/mission-to-somalia-tv-army-on-the-beach-took-us-by-surprise.html