Robert Olaf Waring was born on November 26, 1919 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York. He was the son of Olaf and Olga Waring. He was an officer in the U. S. Foreign Service with postings in Rabat, Morocco; Athens, Greece; London, England; Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria and Beirut, Lebanon. In 1946, Mr. Waring married Irene Pollak while on assignment in Rabat. Thirty years later, on June 16, 1976, while Mr. Waring was the Counselor for Economic Affairs at the Beirut Embassy, he, the Ambassador, Francis E. Meloy, Jr. and a driver (Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi) were kidnapped and assassinated by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as they crossed the Green Line, between Beirut's Christian and Muslim sectors, on their way to meet with President-elect Sarkis. On June 17 President Ford designated Ambassador L. Dean Brown as his Personal Representative to go to Damascus, Syria, to accompany the bodies of slain American officials to the United States. Robert is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA. his name is also honored on the AFSA Memorial Plaques, C Street Lobby, Truman Building, Washington D.C.

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