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Beirut Memorial

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Military monuments and memorials in the United StatesMonuments and memorials in North CarolinaSuicide bombings in Lebanon
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The Beirut Memorial is a memorial to the 241 American peacekeepers—220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers—killed in the October 23, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. It is located outside the gate of Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina. It is the site of an annual commemoration of the victims of the suicide attack that took their lives.

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Beirut Memorial
Lejeune Boulevard, Jacksonville

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Lejeune Boulevard
28543 Jacksonville
North Carolina, United States
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