{"id":428341,"date":"2026-10-15T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428341\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:10:08","slug":"yellow-ribbons-to-mark-273-trees-as-jacksonville-honors-1983-beirut-bombing-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428341\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow ribbons to mark 273 trees as Jacksonville honors 1983 Beirut bombing victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Students and Beirut veterans will place yellow ribbons at Jacksonville\u2019s Beirut Memorial Grove Thursday, October 15, to honor those killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing and related incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The event begins at 10 a.m. at the grove near the intersection of U.S. 17, N.C. 24 and Wilmington Highway, across from Camp Geiger. Northwoods Park Middle School students will join Beirut veterans in tying ribbons to 273 trees.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Jacksonville, Beirut veterans and the Onslow Civic Affairs Committee are encouraging residents and businesses to display yellow ribbons as families and survivors visit for the bombing\u2019s 43rd anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The city planted the grove as a living memorial. Its 273 Chinese pistache trees represent those who died in Beirut and related incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Beirut Memorial Observance is scheduled for October 23 at 10:30 a.m. at Lejeune Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Students and Beirut veterans will place yellow ribbons at Jacksonville\u2019s Beirut Memorial Grove Thursday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-428341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428341","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=428341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}