Philadelphia Beirut Memorial Ceremony ~ 41 Years Later 10-20-2024

October 23, 1983, U.S. troops were awakened at 0622 when a suicide bombing took place at the barracks housing U.S. peacekeeping forces.
The site of the truck bombing was at Lebanon’s Beirut International Airport, where 220 Marines, 18 Sailors and three soldiers were killed. The U.S. along with the United Kingdom, France and Italy were in Lebanon’s capital city to be part of the Lebanon’s Multinational Peacekeeping Force. U.S. troops were sent to Beirut after the start of the 1982 Lebanon War.
In addition to U.S. troop deaths, 58 French troops and six civilians died in a separate suicide bombing at the Beirut airport just minutes after the U.S. barracks was attacked.
The U.S. withdrew troops from Lebanon in 1984. After 18 months in country, 238 Marines had died and 151 had been wounded, according to the Marine Corps’ official history.
Credit: VFW Magazine, October 2023 By Dave Spiva
At the Philadelphia Beirut Memorial there was a service to honor the Nine Marines from Philly for their sacrifices for Our Freedom.
“If You Forget Their Deaths . . . . Then They Died in Vain”.
Cpl. Moses Arnold, Jr., Sgt. John J. Bonk, Jr., Cpl. Thomas A. Hairston, Sgt. Gilbert Hanton, Cpl. John F. Muffler, Sgt. Rafael Pomales-Porres, Pfc. RV-Manuel A. Relvas, Cpl. Louis J. Rotondo and Sgt. Allen D. Wesley.

[@larsandrune]

God bless 🙏

[@millstm1]

We will Never Forget! Semper Fi Brave Marines.

[@billyrose47]

Another great job of covering the ceremony this year Patrick....Semper Fi & Welcome Home brother.