A Steady Hand in the Storm: The Beirut Chaplain Who Never Faltered – George Pucciarelli
On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 U.S. service members—Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers—who were serving as peacekeepers in a land torn by conflict. The tragedy was, at the time, the deadliest single-day loss for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. At the Beirut Memorial in Lejeune…