Beirut Bombing Remembrance Ceremony

On October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon suicide bombers detonated two truck bombs, one striking the barracks housing U.S. Marines and the other a barracks housing French paratroopers.

The attack on the Marine Barracks was devastating with the death toll at 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima during WWII.

Pfc. Christofer Baines covered the Beirut remembrance ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery and his thoughts can be read here: A Brush with History