Resilience
March 30, 2024
With the support of Marine Security Guard Detachment Beirut, generations of Americans will have the opportunity to reflect upon a key artifact in U.S. Marine Corps history.
Beirut Peacemakers Memorial Tower is undergoing Phase 1
By: Victoria Scott (Fox 4 News)
February 21, 2024
The concrete piles seen at William R Gaines Jr. Veterans Memorial Park in Charlotte County are all part of a project to forever remember the 241 American service members who tragically lost their lives in a suicide bombing in Lebanon on October 23, 1983.
Willis Smith Begins Construction on Phase 1 of Tower
February 1, 2024
Progress Images and updates on the Phase one development will be posted here:
US Embassy Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the October 23, 1983 U.S. Marine Corps Barracks Bombing
October 23, 2023
U.S. Embassy Beirut Remembers
October 5, 2023
After 40 years of remembering the events that impacted all of our lives in one form or another on October 23, 1983, it is sometimes easy to look back and feel the world has forgotten the men who died for the mission of peace in Beirut Lebanon.
The Beirut Barracks Bombing of 1983: The Stories that America Needs to Hear
September 21, 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
360 S. Louther Street, Carlisle, PA 17013
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
360 S. Louther Street, Carlisle, PA 17013
Beirut Peacekeeping Tower Groundbreaking Media Coverage
March 17, 2023
Thank you to the local media stations for your coverage of this event!
Over 1,000 turn out for Beirut Peacekeeprs Memorial Tower groundbreaking
Published by The Daily Sun
March 15, 2023
By NANCY J. SEMON Staff Writer
Once complete in about a year, the 3-story tower will stand 45 feet tall with 241 rods — one for each of the 241 lives lost on Oct. 23, 1983, when a suicide bomber drove a truck into the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.Beirut Peacekeepers Tower Groundbreaking
March 15, 2023
You can watch the the groundbreaking service live and see the recording at https://www.facebook.com/CharlotteCountyFlorida/