Hundreds of people came together Saturday at the Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville for the 27th Annual Beirut Rememberance Ceremony.
The special ceremony was held to honor the fallen service members and survivors who served in Lebanon from 1958 to 1984 and Grenada.
It also honored those killed back on October 23rd 1983 when a soldiers headquarters in Beruit, Lebanon was destroyed by a terrorist truck filled with explosives.
Many family members and friends who lost their loved ones in that attack came to the memorial wall. Nearly three hundred soldiers names are engraved in stone.
Jacksonville Mayor Sammy Phillips spoke about this tragic day taht happened twenty seven years ago. Mayor Phillips says, "Jacksonville will never forget the lesson that our passing taught us, that we are one community composed of military and civilian people. Today while we mourn their loss we give them great tribute to a durable bond that has been created."
