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Memorial Wreath Placed

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Submitted photo Elkins Marine Corps League placed a wreath Wednesday at the Beirut Bombing Memorial on the Randolph County Courthouse lawn in observance of the 36th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which claimed the lives of 241 Americans, including U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Cosner of Elkins. Elkins MCL Judge Advocate Greg Irwin, left, and Senior Vice Commandant Todd Hess, right, lay the wreath at the monument bearing the names of five West Virginians who died in the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing including Cosner, Cpl. Medot Camara of Hinton, Lance Cpl. Russell Cyzicle of Star City, Cpl. Timothy Runnigan of Princeton and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Martin Kees of Martinsburg. Killed in the bombing were 220 Marines, 17 Navy medical personnel and four Army soldiers in the largest single-day loss of U.S. Marines since the battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945.

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Elkins Marine Corps League placed a wreath Wednesday at the Beirut Bombing Memorial on the Randolph County Courthouse lawn in observance of the 36th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which claimed the lives of 241 Americans, including U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Cosner of Elkins. Elkins MCL Judge Advocate Greg Irwin, left, and Senior Vice Commandant Todd Hess, right, lay the wreath at the monument bearing the names of five West Virginians who died in the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing including Cosner, Cpl. Medot Camara of Hinton, Lance Cpl. Russell Cyzicle of Star City, Cpl. Timothy Runnigan of Princeton and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Martin Kees of Martinsburg. Killed in the bombing were 220 Marines, 17 Navy medical personnel and four Army soldiers in the largest single-day loss of U.S. Marines since the battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945.

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