Title: A resolution expressing support for the designation of October 23, 2019, as a national day of remembrance of the tragic terrorist bombing of the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for the designation of a national day of remembrance on October 23, 2019, for members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were killed or injured by the terrorist attack on the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 374 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 374

   Expressing support for the designation of October 23, 2019, as a 
  national day of remembrance of the tragic terrorist bombing of the 
    United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 23, 2019

  Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
Cruz, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Coons, Mr. 
  Rubio, and Mr. Casey) submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing support for the designation of October 23, 2019, as a 
  national day of remembrance of the tragic terrorist bombing of the 
    United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.

Whereas, in 1982, the United States deployed members of the Armed Forces to 
        Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force;
Whereas, early on the morning of October 23, 1983, a truck packed with 
        explosives detonated outside of a building at Beirut International 
        Airport that served as quarters for several hundred members of the Armed 
        Forces deployed as part of the peacekeeping force;
Whereas 241 members of the Armed Forces were killed in the blast;
Whereas the members of the Armed Forces killed included 220 Marines, members of 
        the Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Regiment, which 
        made October 23, 1983, the deadliest day for the Marine Corps since the 
        Battle of Iwo Jima in February and March 1945 during World War II;
Whereas, in addition to the Marine Corps casualties, 18 Navy sailors and 3 Army 
        soldiers were killed, and more than 100 other members of the Armed 
        Forces were injured;
Whereas members of the Armed Forces from 39 States and Puerto Rico died while 
        serving in Beirut, Lebanon, from 1982 to 1984;
Whereas, on the same day as the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks, another 
        suicide bomber killed 58 French paratroopers housed at another building 
        in Beirut; and
Whereas it is fitting and proper to recognize the events of October 23, 1983, 
        and the members of the Armed Forces of the United States who died in 
        Beirut on that day through the establishment of a national day of 
        remembrance on October 23, 2019: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) supports the designation of a national day of 
        remembrance on October 23, 2019, for members of the Armed 
        Forces of the United States who were killed or injured by the 
        terrorist attack on the United States Marine Corps barracks in 
        Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983; and
            (2) encourages the people of the United States to support 
        and participate in appropriate ceremonies, programs, and other 
        activities in observance of such a national day of remembrance.
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