LeJeune Memorial Gardens - Jacksonville, NC
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YoSam.
N 34° 44.870 W 077° 24.887
18S E 278950 N 3847735
Started with the Beirut Memorial, then the 9/11 Memorial...then grew some more, and still growing.
Waymark Code: WM10088
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 02/01/2019
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County of park: Onslow County
Location of park: LeJeune Blvd. & Montford Landing Rd., Jacksonville
Created: 1988
When I was here, the sign was about the Vietnam Memorial, then changed to the Montford Memorial site...now called the Lejeune Memorial Gardens...and no sign I known of.
"Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville is the site of the Beirut Memorial, the Onslow Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial, and the park has acreage reserved for future memorials. The Beirut Memorial is a solemn tribute to the 273 Marines killed in Lebanon and in Grenada on Oct. 23, 1983. The name of each man is engraved in granite along with the words, “They Came in Peace.” The 9/11 Memorial includes a beam from the Twin Towers, while the Vietnam Memorial is one of the largest Vietnam Memorials in the nation and among the few that lists all the names of the fallen; inscriptions on its glass walls surrounding the central fountain recall all 58,229 men and women who lost their lives in the Vietnam War." ~ MCB Camp LeJeune Parks
View Map and pay attention to numbers 1, 2, and 3...which is now called the LeJeune Memorial Gardens
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