40th Anniversary
Funeral Service For General Al Gray, 29th CMC. July 29, 2024
Multi-National Peacekeeping Force
Beirut, Lebanon
1982-1984
October 23, 1983
"They Came In Peace"
This website is dedicated to the 273 KIA while serving as Peacekeepers of the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force, Beirut Lebanon 1982-1984 To the 220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers (241) KIA on October 23, 1983 To the Survivors who will forever live with the memory of that fateful day To the Beirut Veterans who, after returning home, struggled with PTSD and took their own lives And to all their Families. – Semper Fidelis
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. – Matthew 5
BEIRUT, LEBANON
10.23.2023
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Hogan
Regional Media Center AFN Europe
U.S. Marines planted 241 cedar trees in Beirut, Lebanon 23 Oct., 2023 to commemorate the fallen service members in the 1983 Beirut Marine Corps barracks bombing.
JACKSONVILLE, NC, UNITED STATES
10.22.2023
Video by Lance Cpl. Victoria Hutt
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/8, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, participate in the opening and closing ceremony of the Beirut Memorial Run at Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Oct. 22, 2023. The Beirut Memorial Run is an annual event that honors the 241 Service members who lost their lives in the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 23, 1983. Participants ran 241 laps to honor the Service members that lost their lives in the bombing. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Victoria Hutt)
Howard Mortan
C-SPAN’S THE WEEKLY
Thursday Oct. 12
Presidents and the 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing
“This past Sunday, at 22 minutes after 6 Beirut time, with dawn just breaking, a truck, looking like a lot of other vehicles in the city, approached the airport on a busy, main road. There was nothing in its appearance to suggest it was any different than the trucks or cars that were normally seen on and around the airport. But this one was different. At the wheel was a young man on a suicide mission The truck carried some 2,000 pounds of explosives, but there was no way our marine guards could know this.” That was President Ronald Reagan — addressing the nation — October 1983. What happened next? And what have other presidents since Ronald Reagan said about that day in October 1983? Find out in the latest episode of C-SPAN’s “The Weekly” — as we mark the 40th anniversary of the Beirut Marine Barracks terror bombing. Find C-SPAN’s “The Weekly” wherever you get podcasts.
Sunday, October 22, 2:00pm EDT The Camouflage Kippa: 40th Anniversary of the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff in conversation with Howard Mortman By National Museum of American Jewish Military History Click here for details
In The News
- Google: Marine Barracks Bombing Anniversary 2023
- Google News: Marine Barracks Bombing Anniversary 2023
- Blog: 'Open when I die': My in-progress ethical will by Rabbi Arnold Rensicoff
- Blog: The camouflage kippa: Memories of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing by Rabbi Arnold Rensicoff
- VFW Magazine - October issue: Beirut Bombing: 40 Years Later
- National Catholic Register The Priest, the Rabbi and the Beirut Terrorist Attack of 1983
- NPR Marine barracks bombing 4 decades ago still echoes in the Middle East
- ABC First Coast News 40th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Beirut Barracks Remembrance Ceremony
- NBC Today Show US veterans reflect on 40th anniversary of Beirut barracks bombing
- Marine Corps Times 40 years after Beirut: How the bombing still haunts the Corps today
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