The bombing, which killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, took place during a civil war in Lebanon that killed tens of thousands and left almost a million people displaced.
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Top military officials who gathered in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to mark the anniversary of the 1983 bombing noted the parallels between the Beirut attack and what is shaping up to be a new and tumultuous chapter in the Middle East.