PIPESTEM, W.Va. –The Marine Corps League will be hosting a memorial and a Memorial Ruck this weekend at Pipestem Resort State Park to honor the Marines who lost their lives in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983.

Elisa Camara, the sister of Mecot Camara, one of the Marines killed in the attack on October 23, 1983, will be in attendance

She explained that a suicide bomber entered the barracks housing U.S. Marines and detonated an explosive device.

“The bomb detonated, and it was equivalent to 12,000 tons of dynamite of explosives,” Camara said.

She said her brother was on the fourth floor when the explosion occurred and was blown from the building by the blast. Camara explained that when her brother was found, he was still alive; however, after being taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima, he passed away.

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