This is the Massachusetts Beirut Memorial. It is located in Christopher Columbus Park in the North end. It was built in 1992 to honor nine Massachusetts Marines that lost their lives while serving as peacekeepers in Beirut, Lebanon. It was on October 23, 1983 that a radical terrorist detonated several bombs next to French and American barrack. Among the killed were 241 Americans were 9 Massachusetts men that are honored here. The memorial was built through Christine Devlin's efforts, mother of the Marine Mike Devlin who was killed in this attack.
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