On Sunday October 23rd,1983 at approximately 6:20am Lebanese time over 241 U.S. Marines,Sailors and Soldiers were killed,hundreds were wounded or disabled. This was the result of a suicide driven truck laden with over 12,000 pounds of explosives that detonated in the BLT 1/8 24th MAU headquarters barracks in Beirut,Lebanon. Others died years later from the results of their service. This makes a total of 273 Marines, Sailors and Soldiers that died. These fallen comrades were on a peacekeeping mission when this terroist activity occurred. We have been requesting a stamp,to no avail from the Postmaster General and the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee in Washington,D.C.for the past 19 years.
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