October 23, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 168 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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   SENATE RESOLUTION 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

  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:

                              S. Res. 374

       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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