Beirut Peacekeepers

Human Interest

Rising to remember: Ground broken for Beirut Peacekeepers Memorial Tower in Port Charlotte

Michael Braun and Andrea Melendez

Ground was broken Wednesday in Charlotte County for the Beirut Peacekeepers Tower at the William R. Gaines Jr. Veterans Memorial Park.The tower will memorialize the 241 Americans killed 40 years ago in the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War.