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Nowhere in articles about the U.S. Invasion to Panama is there mentioned that the U.S. Embassy was ignored by U.S.military forces and was therefore attacked on Dec. 20, 1989 by Panamanian forces. I arrived TDY there on January 17, 1990 to write up nominations for awards of U.S. diplomatic staff, security and Marine guards which encountered harrowing acts of heroism toward American diplomatic personnel. People were locked in the Embassy vault for several days eating C-rations. At least one window in the Ambassador's conference room was blown out. Coincidentally, I had served at that same Embassy in 1975. Emergency and Evacuation plans were in place during that time and updated with military members from Fort. Clayton, who were to come to our aid. When the invasion occurred, the Embassy was forgotten as incoming military countermanded orders on down. There were also military mistakes regarding the SEALS, but the fact that everything is viewed from a cleaned up military record is incomprehensible.