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Latest "beirut bombing" stories
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40 years after Beirut: How the bombing still haunts the Corps today
The bombing remains the largest single-day loss of life for Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
North Carolina Marine base remembers Beirut attack 39 years later
For many residents of Camp Lejeune and Jacksonville, North Carolina, the bombing that took place in Beirut on Oct. 23, 1983, touched them personally.
‘And the building was gone.’ Veterans remember Beirut bombing on 38th anniversary
"The building was rubble there were so many bodies and pieces of bodies," Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff recalls seeing from the morning of the bombing.
By Philip Athey
Veterans, tell us: Where were you during the 1983 Beirut barracks attack?
We don’t want to lose your memories or the important stories that could be told about that day and its aftermath.
By Andrea Scott
A National Day of Remembrance for the 1983 Beirut bombing victims ― A Marine veteran congressman wants it official
220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers died that day.
By Philip Athey