Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23, 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed. Dedicated in 2020, the ...
CHESTERTON -- Barbara Thorstad flew down the stairs that Saturday night to tell her husband, Jim, the horrifying news flash she'd just heard. A bombing of some sort had hit the U.S. Marines barracks ...