Submitted photo Elkins Marine Corps League Paymaster Greg Irwin, Senior Commandant Ron Bodkin and Commandant Roger Ware place a wreath at the Beirut Bombing Memorial on the Randolph County Courthouse lawn in observance of the 42nd anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which claimed the lives of 241 Americans, including USMC Lance Cpl. David L. Cosner of Elkins. The monument bears 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. The wreath-placement ceremony was sponsored by Elkins Marine Corps League Detachment 956. This year also marks the 250th anniversary of founding of the U. S. Marine Corps, established on Nov. 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pa.