{"id":422969,"date":"2026-10-09T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422969\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:28:13","slug":"middle-schoolers-in-jacksonville-meet-with-survivors-of-beirut-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422969\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle schoolers in Jacksonville meet with survivors of Beirut Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Northwoods Park Middle School students met with survivors of the 1983 Beirut Bombing on Thursday to learn about the attack and Jacksonville\u2019s Beirut Memorial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Beirut Bombing on Oct. 23, 1983 killed 241 U.S. service members, including many Marines from Camp Lejeune. A suicide bomber drove a truck into the U.S. Marine barracks at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Marines had been part of a multinational peacekeeping force. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Veterans, including retired Marine Jack MacDonald, spoke to students about their experience. He said volunteering with young people has helped him find hope. He said that he has struggled with PTSD. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen I started working with these young adults, they really brought me back,\u201d MacDonald said. \u201cI was at the edge where I didn\u2019t know if I was going to make it. But they brought me back and showed me that they care; my city cares, so it brought my hope back.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students made yellow ribbons and visited the Carolina Museum of the Marine. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Northwoods Park Middle School students met with survivors of the 1983 Beirut Bombing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15278,166820,116,118,117,166821,15284,4481,111937],"class_list":["post-422969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-beirut","tag-beirut-international-airport","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-marine-jack-macdonald","tag-marines","tag-nc","tag-northwoods-park-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}