Troops Give Brutal Account Of Getting Hit By A Chlorine Truck Bomb In Iraq

On rare occasions, insurgents in the Iraq War targeted American soldiers and civilians with chemical attacks in the form of chlorine bombings, which injured troops unlike any other weapon they faced. One such attack occurred in Fallujah, Iraq on March 28, 2007. It is recounted in the perspective of Marine First Lieutenant Travis Manion in the new book “Brothers Forever,” co-written by Tom Sileo and Manion’s father, retired Marine Colonel Tom Manion. Manion was sleeping in a government comp...