University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1983
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have been unsuccessful. Although the Red Cross said it would be willing to notify him, "their hands are tied," until the Marines give them official word of Terry's condition.
"Mike knows Terry was in that blown-up building. I want my son to have a clear mind," said their mother, Janice, 43.
The Valores, who also have a daughter, Marcy, 17, question the fairness of the Marines' sending two members of the same family to two "battled areas."
"One of my boys already gave his blood. I don't want the second one to have to give his blood, too. Why do we have to go through this again?"
"I went through this once. One son put his blood there. I don't feel we should have to go through this again. I feel I have a rite" to demand my other son is on safe grounds," she said.
By United Press International
Kansas Marine stationed in Beirut uses TV to tell relatives he survived
"Why do I have to go through with my older boy what I just went through with my younger brother? No, it's not."
HUTCHINSON — To ease the anxiety of relatives in Kansas, a Hutchinson Marine yesterday said he walked in front of any military aircraft that attacked them that killed more than 200 American servicemen.
"I made it a point that first hour or so to walk in front of any camera I saw," said Staff Sgt. Calvin Openshaw Jr., a member of a public affairs team stationed at the Beirut Airport.
"I knew it would be a long time before any
'I made it a point that first hour or so to walk in front of any camera I saw. I knew it would be a long time before any phone call could go out.'
- Staff Sgt. Calvin Openshaw Jr., stationed in Beirut
phone call could go out," he said in a telephone interview from Beirut with the Hutchinson News.
OPENHAM SAID HE  as in a tent about 220
OPPENS from the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit
Battalion Landing Team Headquarters when a truck loaded with explosives drove into the building, killing at least 214 American servicemen. He said the blast's force knocked him out of his bed
"I kind of tore my chin a little bit," he told the newspaper. "I hit the floor. I didn't hear any explosion ... it (the headquarters) was around a couple of corners and through a grove of trees.
"We ran into our buker first. I thought it was artillery. I didn't remember hearing any calls."
Openshaw, 33, a 1968 Hutchinson High School graduate, is the son of Calvin Openshaw of Hutchison and Blanche Openshaw of Dallas. He is a 12-year career Marine veteran.
THE ELDER OPENSHAW said his son's wife and sister both saw the Marine on television. Openshaw said his son was scheduled to leave Beirut Nov. 10.
Shortly after the explosion, Openshaw said he and others raced to the demolished building and began digging.
Although shaken by the death of his fellow servicemen, Openshaw said the United States should stay in Lebanon.
"We've still got a mission here to perform," he said. "I think if we weren't here, the country would be in a lot worse shape than it is now. I don't think we should pull out."
TOWER AND OTHER committee members said Weinberger did not offer specific plans to improve the Marine situation, but is awaiting a report by Gen. Paul Kelley, the Marine commandant who was in Beirut assessing the base's security.
Mideast
"I would say the consensus of the committee is that the security was not adequate," said Armed Services chairman John Tower, R-Texas. "It is difficult to defend against terrorist attacks of that kind . . . but that threat could have been minimized, in my judgment."
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said Weinberger had attempted to answer the committee's questions, but "not to my satisfaction."
Kennedy said the senators wanted to know what steps were being taken against the renewed threat of bombing.
"Certainly we have a very deep responsibility to ensure that every possible measure is taken for their security. Quite clearly every security was not taken." Kennedy said.
Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calf, said the decision to house a large number of Marines in the steel-inforced concrete building that was attacked "was dictated by the desire to remove them from snipers and mortar fire." The military said it had taken action, plaining and simple, is adequate security against an act of terror."
sniper is attacked from the Muslim slums of southern NO SUICIDE BOMBER appeared from the Muslim slums of southern Beirut to threaten Marines with another act of terror. But the Marines were on alert.
At the entry of the Marine base, a 2-ton military truck blocked the way, with a 50-caliber machine gun nest perched on top.
Machine gun nests primed to fire 7.62mm rounds, as well as M-60 tanks, ringed the base. New foxholes were dug and sandbags were stacked deeper.
"We are trying to prepare ourselves for any kind of contingency," Carl, Wayne-Jones said.
THE MARINES PULLED on flak jackets, parked trucks and jeeps on approach roads, hunkered into trenches in full combat gear and manned sandbagged posts bristling with machine guns.
They went on their highest state of alert and threw cement pillars across access roads to prevent a repeat of Sunday's suicide attacks, in which trucks loaded with TNT barreled into a Marine and a French base in apparently coordinated attacks on the forces.
in apparently cool danger attacks on the enemy The attack on the Marines was the bloodiest in peacetime and surpassed the loss of life of combat troops on any day throughout the Vietnam War.
U. S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew, however, stayed at his desk, and Marines behind sandbags stood by armed with rapid-fire M-16 rifle.
The biggest single loss sustained by the Marines was D-Day on Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945, when 501 Marines died.
and Marines behind sandbags stood by armed with rapid-fire WM rifles.
Embassy staff at the Durrarrou Building and some French units are also present.
OFFICIALS DID NOT reveal how they learned of the bomb scare and three trucks cruising near the airport. But Marine Capt. Jones said the three trucks were seen in the area, "and we suspected they were carrying explosives."
The alert also led to partial evacuation of the British Embassy which has housed U.S. diplomatic offices since the April in bombing of the U.S. embassy.
The alert later was relaxed slightly to allow 300 newly arrived U.S. Marines to begin building a new combat and communication center to replace the four-story Battalion Landing Team Headquarters that was destroyed.
OTHER MARINES WEARING surgical masks to ward off the stench of death continued looking for the estimated 20 U.S. servicemen still in the
Marine Commandant Paul X. Kelley stopped in West Germany to award Purple Heart to 16 warriors Marine and then flew to Berilut for an inspection of the warships.
In Beirut, Kelley circled the 30-foot-deep crater that the explosion left in the headquarters and watched as two more bodies were pulled from the rubble.
Casualty list
The Pentagon has identified the following U.S. troops killed in Beirut Sunday. All are Marines except where noted:
- Pvt. L.D. Trahan, Lafayette, La.
- Ptc. Michael Devlin, Westwood, Mass.
- Pfc. Mark Heims, Dwight, A1
- Pfc. James Price, Attala, Ala.
- Lance Cpl. J.J. Langon, Lakehurst, N.J.
- Pc. R.A. Relvas, Philadelphia.
Lance Goll, T. Dibenedetto, Manofield Center,
Corn.
- Lance Cpr. B. Sanpedro, Hillman, P.A.
- First Sgt. D.L. Battle, Hubert, N.C.
- *Lance Cpl. John Trilthmack, Minneapolis
Minn.
- Lance Cpl. B. Sanpedro, Hialeah, Fla.
- Ptc. J.B. Owen, Virginia Beach, Va
- First Sgt. D.L. Battle, Hubert, N.C.
*Cpl. M.E. Camara, Jacksonville, N.C.*
- Navy Hospitalman Bryan L. Karle, Pamessville Ohio
- Lance Cpl. B. Sangredro, Haleah, Fla.
- First Sgt. D.L. Battle, Hubert, N.C.
* C.I.F. M.C. Camera, Jacketville, N.C.
Lance Cpt. B. Simpson, Hairiann, Ph.
First Sgt. D.L. Battle, Hubert, N.C.
106. ●Bryce Michael Durkin, Westwood, Mass.
ELEV, LEFT, FURTHER, HARRIETTING, PARK
m.p., m.t. Camara, Jacksonville, N.
● Pt. L.D. Trahan, Lafayette, La.
- Pic. Mark Helms, Dwight, Neb.
* Biscuit, Bruce, Alan
- Cgil, M. Mercer, Vale, N.C.
- Lance Cpl. J.J. Langon, Lakeburst, N.J.
- Lance Cgl. T, Dibenedetto, Mansfield Gente
Coin.
- Ple. J.B. Owen, Virginia Beach, Va.
• Clo. K. E. Virginia Atlantic low
- Gauney Sgt. E. Kinnan, Atlantic, Iowa
- Navy Hospitalman Jimmy R. Cain,
Birmingham, Ma.
Navy Hospitalman Bryan L. Earle, PaimvilleOhio
Odara.
• Arms Sgt. 1st Class James G. Yarber,
Vacaville, Calif.
*Lance Cpl. Dwayne Wigglesworth, Naugatuck.
major. B.F. Droussel, Catatum, Mass.
Lance Gp. Jesse Ellison, Grothier Ground, Wro.
Lance Gp. Warrior Gibbs, Fortsmouth, Va.
Lance Gp. D.M. Green, Baltimore, Md.
*Lance Cpl. Thomas Hairston, Philadelphia Pa.
- Lance Cpl. Douglas Held, Jacksonville, N.C.
* Gunnery Sgt. D. W. hidreth, Sneads Ferry
(C)
- Lance Cpl. F.H. Kreischer III, Indianaal, Flia
* Pic Timothy McMahon, Austin, Texas.
* Mickey McMahon, Austin, Texas.
Pfc. Alex Munzer, Bloomfield, N.J.
Capt. Waint Wint Jr., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Lance Cpl. John McCall, Rochester, NY (formerly listed as wounded)
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