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Deborah Peterson places flowers at the grave of her brother, Marine Cpl. James Chandonnet Knipple, Oct. 19, 2008, at Arlington National Cemetery. Peterson, her two sisters, and a handful of other family members gathered for the White House Commission on Remembrance’s 25th annual tribute to the 241 Americans, mostly Marines, killed in the Oct. 23, 1983, terrorist attacks on a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

A SISTER'S REMEMBRANCE

Deborah Peterson places flowers at the grave of her brother, Marine Cpl. James Chandonnet Knipple, Oct. 19, 2008, at Arlington National Cemetery. Peterson, her two sisters, and a handful of other family members gathered for the White House Commission on Remembrance’s 25th annual tribute to the 241 Americans, mostly Marines, killed in the Oct. 23, 1983, terrorist attacks on a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

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