Between the banks of the Providence River and Dyer Street, a memorial honors the nine men who died on Oct. 23 , 1983, when a Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed .

Dedicated in 2020, the edifice on Providence's downtown waterfront incorporates the Marines' faces. Etched into glass, they are illuminated by both sunlight and electric light.

In 1983, they were Marines stationed in Lebanon but had ties all the way back to Rhode Island

It was springtime 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, just barely a month after the bombing of the U.S. Embassy.

A young U.S. Marine corporal from Providence paid a visit to an even younger U.S. Marine private from Woonsocket.

Cpl. Timothy Giblin didn't know it, but many people in his home state would come to remember him as one of the "Rhode Island

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