CBS Evening News - 1983-10-24

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[0:00] nights at 10:30 on Channel 5.

[0:04] >> Maybe it's my ignorance that I don't

[0:06] know the whole story, but I think it is

[0:09] such a a senseless thing to take him

[0:11] over there

[0:13] and slaughter him. And we just pray that

[0:15] Danny will be sent home to us.

[0:20] It's not in a bag. So, we saw all the

[0:23] the pictures and and I know it's news

[0:26] and they have to show it, but it's so

[0:27] hard for the families to see this

[0:30] because you just keep thinking, is that

[0:32] is that my brother? Could it be him?

[0:35] >> A mother grieavves, a sister waits. Good

[0:39] evening. This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:40] Dan Rather reporting. The Defense

[0:42] Department now says the number of

[0:44] confirmed dead among US servicemen in

[0:46] Beirut is 191. It's believed that not

[0:50] since the Korean War have American

[0:51] military forces suffered that many

[0:53] casualties in a single strike on one

[0:56] place in one day. It is the highest

[0:59] one-day death toll for the American

[1:00] military since February 23rd, 1969, when

[1:04] 208 US servicemen were killed in

[1:06] fighting throughout Vietnam. In Beirut,

[1:09] at the rubble that once was the US

[1:11] Marine Command post, Marines today were

[1:13] digging out one by one the victims of

[1:16] the suicide truck bombing. Tom Fenton is

[1:18] there.

[1:21] >> The BLT, as the Marines called it, took

[1:23] the equivalent of a direct hit by a

[1:25] one-tonon bomb.

[1:29] The upper floors collapsed on sleeping

[1:31] Marines and sailors like a triple-

[1:33] decker sandwich. Most never knew what

[1:35] hit them.

[1:40] How the Marines defense perimeter could

[1:42] have been penetrated is another

[1:43] question. Part of the answer is that the

[1:45] Marines rely on the inexperienced

[1:47] Lebanese Army to check vehicles in the

[1:50] area around the base. Today, all kinds

[1:53] of vehicles were being waved right

[1:54] through without the slightest

[1:56] verification. Almost anyone could have

[1:58] driven right up to the Marine perimeter,

[2:01] just as the suicide truck did yesterday

[2:03] morning. After turning into the parking

[2:06] lot, it swerved around a Marine sentry

[2:08] post and crashed through the gates,

[2:10] heading straight for the building. The

[2:12] truck avoided a Marine who dove in front

[2:14] of it. Then it drove through a blast

[2:16] shield. Five shots were fired at it as

[2:18] it went through the front door and into

[2:20] the lobby where it exploded.

[2:22] >> Yes. Yes.

[2:23] >> The Lebanese army had warned the Marines

[2:25] they might be attacked.

[2:26] >> Many times. Many times. And the last

[2:27] time was 4 days ago.

[2:31] >> What did you tell them exactly?

[2:32] >> I told them you will be the target of

[2:34] terrorist.

[2:35] >> The Marines insist that their

[2:37] precautions were more than adequate.

[2:40] We took every reasonable precaution and

[2:43] some to uh to prevent uh terrorist acts

[2:48] as as such. As most of you have seen

[2:51] around our area, we have uh put large uh

[2:55] barricades. We put uh some of our

[2:58] heavier rolling equipment to uh prelude

[3:01] this. The question remains, what are the

[3:04] Marines doing in Lebanon? They're here

[3:06] to prop up a government that still

[3:08] controls only part of Beirut and none of

[3:10] the rest of the country. And they're

[3:12] being told to do it by sitting at Beirut

[3:14] airport, where they've become prime

[3:16] targets. Marines on the airport

[3:19] perimeter within easy range of Muslim

[3:21] snipers find this passive role both

[3:24] dangerous and frustrating. But today,

[3:27] their minds were on the friends they had

[3:28] lost and on their families back home.

[3:32] >> Send our love. It's all I can do to tell

[3:34] them we're alive.

[3:36] >> Rosters of the living were being drawn

[3:38] up today, but the records of the dead

[3:40] were buried with the rubble. Out of the

[3:42] confusion came stories of miraculous

[3:45] escapes. One of the most amazing escapes

[3:47] was that of Marine Private Robert

[3:49] Calhoun. He was on top of the building

[3:51] when it exploded beneath him.

[3:54] >> I'm not sorry I came here. I'm just

[3:55] sorry that something like this happened.

[3:57] Uh, I think that we have to be here and

[4:00] I don't think like something of this

[4:01] should deter us from what we're doing.

[4:04] But it's sure as god shame that we did

[4:06] something like this.

[4:07] >> A mile away, the French were digging out

[4:10] their death. It was a measure of their

[4:12] concern that the president of France,

[4:14] Franis Miteron, made a surprise trip to

[4:17] Beirut. He visited the scene where the

[4:19] second blast brought an eightstory

[4:21] building down on some 100 French

[4:24] paratroopers. During his visit, voices

[4:26] could still be heard beneath the rubble.

[4:29] The French building was even more

[4:30] lightly protected than the American

[4:32] base. Tonight, the American defenses

[4:35] have been beefed up. Heavy vehicles have

[4:37] been used to block access roads. It

[4:40] would be more difficult now to carry out

[4:42] a similar attack on the Marines. But

[4:44] this catastrophe will not soon be

[4:47] forgotten. In the annals of the Marine

[4:49] Corps, there have been few losses that

[4:51] were so tragic.

[4:54] Tom Fenton, CBS News, Beirut.

[4:57] >> There were also many Americans wounded

[4:59] in yesterday's horrifying bombing. The

[5:01] latest count, 75 serious enough to be

[5:03] evacuated from Beirut. An undetermined

[5:06] number treated in the Lebanese capital.

[5:08] Those evacuated on military hospital

[5:10] planes were taken to West Germany as

[5:12] well as to Italy and Cyprus. at the Rhin

[5:14] Main Air Base in West Germany today. The

[5:17] first of the US Marine replacements for

[5:18] the dead and wounded in Beirut made a

[5:20] brief stopover before heading on to the

[5:22] Lebanese capital, said one Marine about

[5:24] to begin a second tour of duty in

[5:25] Beirut. I don't particularly want to go

[5:27] back again, said another. Yes, I'm a

[5:30] little scared. The explosion in Beirut

[5:32] shattered the worlds of some American

[5:34] families beyond repair. And Bruce Morton

[5:36] reports tonight that in today's awful

[5:38] silence, life comes down to a matter of

[5:41] words, the names of survivors, and the

[5:44] dreaded phrase, "We regret to inform

[5:46] you."

[5:47] >> Prior to this,

[5:48] >> for families all over America, this was

[5:51] the longest day for Gene Giblin and her

[5:54] sons and daughters. With two of those

[5:55] sons, Timmy and Donnie, with the Marines

[5:57] in Lebanon, it was the longest day. 24

[6:00] hours and no word. 36 40. For John and

[6:04] Iris Summers, each hour without seeing

[6:06] the official Marine Corps car come up

[6:08] the drive was a small gain against

[6:10] disaster.

[6:11] >> When you don't see the car coming, the

[6:12] longer you don't see the car coming up,

[6:15] the better you feel. You understand what

[6:17] I'm saying?

[6:18] >> For some, the waiting ended badly with

[6:20] the news of death in the family. Vieo

[6:23] and Sila San Pedro lost their son.

[6:25] >> I am proud of my son

[6:28] and uh he was proud to be a Marine. He

[6:33] died for his people.

[6:35] >> Antonio Welvis lost a brother.

[6:37] >> I don't know. It's It's crazy. It's all

[6:39] >> for Eloise Hines of Forest City, Iowa.

[6:42] Good news. Sort of. Her son James was

[6:44] wounded but will live.

[6:46] >> Well, when I saw two men standing

[6:48] outside my door, I think I just about

[6:50] died right there. It was awful until

[6:54] they said, you know, he he was wounded.

[6:56] They had the good news that he was

[6:57] wounded.

[6:58] >> And for some, it was good news all the

[7:00] way. Children at the San Antonio school

[7:03] where Darthothy Calhoun works are

[7:04] writing letters to her son Robert. He

[7:06] made it.

[7:07] >> And when the phone rang, my husband was

[7:10] in the bedroom and answered the phone

[7:12] and my daughter and I were in the other

[7:14] room

[7:16] and we heard he is he is. And we went in

[7:19] and I saw tears coming down my husband's

[7:21] face and we knew he was okay. And what

[7:25] we felt was

[7:27] God answered our prayers. But for the

[7:30] Gibblins in Providence and many others,

[7:32] the longest day goes on.

[7:34] >> Our blessed mother knew exactly what

[7:35] you're going through when she lost the

[7:36] child. Jesus.

[7:38] >> There is comfort, but no word of whether

[7:40] Timmy and Donnie are alive.

[7:44] >> Okay.

[7:50] >> A poet wrote once that after despair

[7:52] comes wisdom through the awful grace of

[7:54] God. Across the United States today,

[7:57] there was little wisdom yet and much

[8:00] grieving.

[8:03] >> Bruce Morton, CBS News, New York.

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[9:15] Diplomatic sources on Barbados tell CBS

[9:17] News correspondent Sandy Gilmore that

[9:19] some 50 US Marines have arrived at the

[9:21] Bridgetown airport, only 100 miles from

[9:24] Grenada. A US diplomat told Gilmore that

[9:26] an evacuation of hundreds of Americans

[9:28] on Grenada has not been ruled out. The

[9:31] military took over Grenada last week in

[9:33] a coup after killing the Marxist prime

[9:35] minister. On the record, US officials

[9:37] charge there is circumstantial evidence

[9:39] linking Iran to the Beirut bombing.

[9:41] They'll go no further with this charge,

[9:43] but off the record, as David Martin

[9:45] reports, evidence presented about an

[9:47] Iranian connection appears much more

[9:49] solid. CBS News has learned that as

[9:52] recently as September, US intelligence

[9:54] intercepted communications between the

[9:55] Iranian embassy in Beirut and the

[9:57] Iranian foreign ministry in Thran

[10:00] indicating an attack against American

[10:01] forces and installations in Lebanon was

[10:04] being discussed. Exactly when, where,

[10:06] and how was not clear, but intelligence

[10:08] analysts now link those intercepted

[10:10] messages to Sunday's carnage at Beirut

[10:12] airport. US intelligence believes the

[10:14] bombing was masterminded by this man,

[10:16] Abu Masawa, a renegade Lebanese Shiite

[10:19] Muslim loyal to Ayatollah Kumini.

[10:21] Masawa's followers have claimed

[10:23] responsibility for the April bombing of

[10:25] the US embassy in Beirut and the sniper

[10:27] attacks against the Marines. American

[10:29] sources say Masawa and his followers

[10:31] have known contacts with Iranian

[10:33] intelligence officers assigned to the

[10:35] Iranian embassy in Beirut and travel

[10:37] regularly to Iran. His headquarters are

[10:40] behind Syrian lines in Lebanon's Baka

[10:42] Valley. To some in the intelligence

[10:45] community, the evidence against Misawa

[10:46] is more than just circumstantial. So

[10:49] why, they ask, weren't better

[10:50] precautions taken to protect the

[10:52] Marines? Following the April bombing of

[10:54] the embassy, Pentagon experts

[10:56] recommended major changes in security at

[10:58] American installations in Lebanon. Some

[11:00] were made at the sites where American

[11:02] soldiers trained the Lebanese Army, but

[11:04] very little was done at the Marine

[11:06] Compound. The kinds of security

[11:08] precautions needed to stop an attack

[11:09] like Sundays are well known. This

[11:12] barrier in Berlin, for instance, forces

[11:14] cars to zigzag so they can't gather

[11:16] speed to crash a gate. At the airport in

[11:18] Beirut, none of this was done, and

[11:20] Congress wants to know why. And

[11:22] unfortunately the security in my

[11:24] judgment was inadequate and this

[11:28] terrible tragedy occurred.

[11:29] >> And Congress also wants to know if the

[11:31] Pentagon properly planned for a medical

[11:33] emergency in Beirut

[11:35] >> with Israel located close by and other

[11:38] countries close by having to fly all the

[11:40] way to Germany uh raises certain

[11:42] questions.

[11:43] >> To answer some of the questions, a badly

[11:45] shaken Marine comedant PX Kelly left

[11:48] today for Beirut.

[11:50] David Martin, CBS News. The Pentagon

[11:53] >> in Tehran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry

[11:55] today denied any involvement in the

[11:56] Beirut bombing. It said that what

[11:58] happened yesterday was an example of

[12:00] quote the resistance of the people of

[12:01] Lebanon. Shiite Muslim groups

[12:03] sympathetic to or controlled by Iran

[12:06] have been accused by US officials in

[12:08] recent sniper attacks on the Marines.

[12:10] Most of these groups are centered in the

[12:11] ancient Lebanese town of Balbach in the

[12:13] heart of the Syrian controlled Becka

[12:15] Valley. Alan Pizzy managed to get into

[12:17] that dangerous area and filed this

[12:19] report.

[12:21] >> The Iranian flag flies over a barracks

[12:23] above Balbeck where several hundred

[12:25] Iranian regular troops and reportedly

[12:27] some revolutionary guards are based.

[12:30] That would seem to lend credence to

[12:32] American claims of an Iranian connection

[12:33] to the bombings. But Islamic leaders

[12:36] here back up Iran's denials of

[12:38] involvement and say Washington is

[12:39] indulging in hysteria. A pro-Iranian

[12:43] militia leader here said there was no

[12:44] basis for the American accusations, but

[12:46] he added that he expected more attacks

[12:48] against the Marines. They have no

[12:50] business here, the leader said, and the

[12:52] Islamic Revolution does not fear

[12:54] American retaliation.

[12:56] The Islamic leaders say the group that

[12:58] claimed responsibility, the Free Islamic

[13:00] Revolutionary Movement, has too many

[13:02] contradictions about it, such as its

[13:04] reported support for both Marxism and

[13:06] Islam. In this atmosphere of charge and

[13:09] countercharge, establishing where the

[13:10] responsibility for Sunday's bombing lies

[13:12] may prove to be impossible. Alan Pizzy,

[13:15] CBS News, Balbeck.

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[14:35] >> At the White House, President Reagan

[14:37] defended his policy of keeping the

[14:38] Marines in Lebanon and reiterated to a

[14:40] group of visiting journalists that the

[14:42] policy will continue. White House

[14:43] correspondent Leslie Stall reports.

[14:46] There were more than 200 men sleeping in

[14:49] that building. Many of the men were not

[14:51] wearing their dog tags and the delay in

[14:54] notification of the families and it must

[14:57] be a a terrible cruel additional

[15:00] punishment for these people who wait in

[15:01] suspense.

[15:03] >> At a lunchon for out of town newsmen,

[15:05] the president spoke emotionally of the

[15:06] heartbreaking tragedy. But the White

[15:08] House is concerned that the American

[15:10] people want the Marines withdrawn. So

[15:12] Mr. Reagan explained his policy, saying

[15:14] the Marines will stay because the US has

[15:17] vital interests in Lebanon. The option

[15:19] that we cannot consider is withdrawing

[15:22] while their mission still remains.

[15:24] >> Secretary of State Schultz told Congress

[15:26] today that Syria must bear a share of

[15:28] the responsibility for the attack since

[15:30] the terrorists identified as Iranians

[15:33] operate from behind Syrian lines.

[15:35] Schultz as well as the president also

[15:37] blame Syria's ally, the Soviet Union. It

[15:40] would be a disaster if

[15:44] a force took over the Middle East and a

[15:47] force is ready to do that has witnessed

[15:49] what has taken place in Yemen, in

[15:51] Ethiopia and now the forces that some

[15:54] several thousand that are there in in uh

[15:58] Syria.

[16:00] The free world cannot stand by and see

[16:03] that happen. Administration sources

[16:06] concede the ability of the US to

[16:08] retaliate is nearly impossible. A strike

[16:10] against Syria, for instance, risks

[16:12] involvement with some 7,000 Soviet

[16:14] advisers supporting the Syrian army. But

[16:16] there are some strategic options under

[16:18] consideration if it is shown that Iran

[16:21] was behind the attack. One possibility,

[16:23] a tilt toward Iraq by supplying Iran's

[16:26] archeneemy with aid and weapons. Another

[16:28] option, urging Israel to take a more

[16:30] active and military role in maintaining

[16:32] peace in Lebanon. A high level US

[16:35] delegation is scheduled to travel to

[16:36] Israel next week. While the president

[16:39] weighs the options, he is determined

[16:40] that the US not be perceived as standing

[16:43] alone in the Middle East. Secretary of

[16:45] State Schulz will travel to Paris on

[16:47] Friday to meet with leaders of the other

[16:49] multinational force nations to work out

[16:52] a coordinated policy and to discuss

[16:54] whether the force should be broadened by

[16:56] asking other nations to contribute

[16:58] troops. Leslie Stall, CBS News, the

[17:01] White House. Facing a December

[17:03] deployment of US nuclear missiles in

[17:04] Western Europe, the Soviet Union said

[17:06] today it is doing preparatory work to

[17:08] deploy missiles of its own in Eastern

[17:10] Europe, specifically in Czechoslovakia

[17:12] and East Germany. While the Warsaw Pack

[17:14] has threatened to do this, today's word

[17:16] from Moscow was the first official claim

[17:18] that the basing is actually beginning.

[17:30] This year, Mr. Wilson bought a

[17:32] Volkswagen, the new Rabbit Sparmeister,

[17:34] our value leader. It cost only $6,390.

[17:39] It's German engineered and he assumed it

[17:41] would last a long, long time. How could

[17:44] he make this assumption? Because 20

[17:46] years ago, Mr. Wilson bought a

[17:48] Volkswagen.

[17:53] Rabbit Sparmeister. It's not a car. It's

[17:56] a Volkswagen.

[18:01] Do I care about the foods he eats? Do I

[18:04] care if he gets too much sugar?

[18:07] >> Sure I do.

[18:12] >> In the morning, he gets Neutrorain

[18:14] cereal.

[18:15] >> I care for you, my baby.

[18:17] >> Neutra Grain from Kelloggs. No sugar

[18:20] added, no preservatives. Nothing comes

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[18:24] taste.

[18:24] >> This is dedicated to the one I love.

[18:26] >> Neutrain. Why not dedicate it to the one

[18:29] you love?

[18:32] >> Last summer, Italy was shocked by the

[18:34] kidnapping of 15-year-old Manuela

[18:36] Orlande, the daughter of a Vatican

[18:37] employee. The ransom demand her life for

[18:40] the release of Turkish terrorist Mechmet

[18:42] Ali, the man who tried to kill the Pope.

[18:45] Since then, there has been no trace of

[18:46] the Orlando girl. Recently, a man who

[18:49] claims to be involved contacted CBS News

[18:51] Rome correspondent Richard Roth. Today,

[18:54] this man contacted Roth again and said

[18:56] another girl, Mirela Griorgi, also has

[18:59] been kidnapped, presumably for the same

[19:01] objective, AJ's release. And the man

[19:04] told correspondent Roth that there could

[19:06] be more kidnappings in the United

[19:07] States, all to secure AJ's freedom. The

[19:10] Justice Department said today that it is

[19:12] investigating how FBI surveillance tapes

[19:14] of automaker John Delorean were obtained

[19:17] by magazine publisher Larry Flint and

[19:19] then passed on to CBS News. And

[19:22] Delorean's lawyer argued that broadcast

[19:24] of some of the tapes by CBS News now

[19:27] should be cause for dismissal of the

[19:29] cocaine dealing case against his client.

[19:31] Our law correspondent Fred Graham is in

[19:33] Los Angeles.

[19:35] >> A Bible toading John Delorean arrived at

[19:37] his lawyer's office this morning in the

[19:39] wake of the tape controversy that's

[19:41] embroiled his case. The issue is whether

[19:44] John Delorean was unfairly enticed by

[19:47] government agents into an illegal drug

[19:49] deal. The surveillance tapes obtained by

[19:51] the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes from

[19:54] Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint

[19:56] are only part of the evidence, but they

[19:58] do show four key meetings during

[20:00] September of 1982 between Delorean and

[20:03] the agents. September 4th, 1982, in a

[20:07] Washington DC hotel room, Delorean

[20:09] discusses a vague business deal with an

[20:12] FBI undercover operative who offers to

[20:14] let Delorean out of the deal. September

[20:17] 9th at a bank in San Carlos, California,

[20:20] an undercover agent introduces Delorean

[20:22] to a phony banker who says he can

[20:24] provide cash for the deal. September

[20:27] 20th, the Bair Sands Hotel in Los

[20:29] Angeles. The phony banker, seated on the

[20:31] left, and Delorean meet a suspected

[20:34] big-time drug smuggler, the real target

[20:36] of the undercover investigation, who

[20:38] says he won't get involved unless

[20:40] Delorean was involved.

[20:47] That's what I'm going to do.

[20:56] >> September 28th, the Bonav Venture Hotel,

[20:58] Los Angeles. Delorean meets with two

[21:01] undercover men. One mentions cocaine,

[21:04] another heroin. Delorean did not back

[21:07] out. During the first three weeks of

[21:09] October, Delorean assigned half of the

[21:11] stock of his company to the undercover

[21:13] agents allegedly as payment for the

[21:15] drugs and Hedric imported 220 pounds of

[21:18] cocaine from South America. Hetrich was

[21:21] arrested and pleaded guilty. The cocaine

[21:23] was seized and on October 19th in a

[21:25] hotel room in Los Angeles, the trap was

[21:28] sprung on John Delorean. A suitcase full

[21:30] of cocaine was put before him and he

[21:32] called it better than gold.

[21:34] >> Better gold. goal is more than that for

[21:38] sakes.

[21:38] >> A few minutes later, the FBI arrived and

[21:40] John Delorean was put under arrest.

[21:44] >> Fred Graham, CBS News, Los Angeles.

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[24:17] >> It was a somber and moving scene which

[24:19] will be repeated across the nation in

[24:21] days to come. A 28-year-old Marine

[24:23] captain killed by a sniper bullet last

[24:25] week in Lebanon, was buried today in

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[24:37] Flowers from the wives of other Marines

[24:39] stationed in Lebanon, flanked Captain

[24:40] Oler's coffin.

[24:43] For some, on this day of morning, the

[24:45] delay in the release of names by the

[24:47] defense department is an agony.

[24:48] Everything else seems trivial compared

[24:50] to the calamity in Beirut and its

[24:52] aftermath. Bruce Hall reports.

[24:55] >> As morning broke over fog shrouded Camp

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[25:01] but little information. Some said it was

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[25:07] Others turned to the local radio station

[25:09] for information. A sad Monday morning,

[25:11] huh? Indeed. Did they release the names

[25:14] of the victims?

[25:15] >> No. They were supposed to come across at

[25:17] 8:00 this morning, but uh no news yet.

[25:20] >> Yeah, we are in suspension here and part

[25:24] of the morning was spent comforting

[25:25] wives.

[25:27] >> You have a husband that's over there?

[25:28] >> Oh, yes.

[25:29] >> And you've heard nothing yet?

[25:30] >> No, it was just company though.

[25:32] >> Will you just hang in there? Okay.

[25:34] >> Yeah, we got three little kids.

[25:35] >> There are a lot of people out there

[25:36] praying for you.

[25:37] >> Yes.

[25:37] >> Finally, unofficial word began filtering

[25:40] out. For Iva Birkhart, the initial

[25:42] report was good, but she was not able to

[25:44] let her guard down yet.

[25:46] >> I know that they do not have the list

[25:49] because they're still finding bodies and

[25:51] things, and until the names are

[25:53] released, will I be satisfied that he is

[25:55] not one of them.

[25:57] >> By late afternoon, the first names were

[25:59] being broadcast here.

[26:00] >> First Sergeant DL Battle of Hubert.

[26:03] Corporal Emmy Camo of Jacksonville.

[26:05] 22-year-old Mikott Cameron's mother said

[26:08] he was proud to be part of the

[26:09] peacekeeping force.

[26:10] >> We as his family consider him a hero. We

[26:14] loved him. We're proud of him. We think

[26:16] the whole world is proud of him.

[26:18] >> Only an hour after being told of his

[26:20] death, the family received a moving

[26:21] letter from Corporal Camera. His

[26:23] brother-in-law quoted from the letter.

[26:25] >> I can't wait to get home and help my son

[26:27] feed the ducks. Said, "I will be home

[26:29] soon, honey. Believe me, I will be

[26:30] home."

[26:31] >> But the father of this boy will not be

[26:33] home. And for this marine town, the

[26:36] story will be repeated again and again

[26:39] this week. Bruce Hall, CBS News, Camp

[26:42] Lleune, North Carolina.

[26:51] And that's CBS Evening News for this

[26:52] Monday. Dan Rather reporting from New

[26:54] York. Thank you for joining us. Good

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