Eagle Scout project to add bench in Widmeyer Park

By Geoff Fox

On the morning of October 23, 1983, in Beirut, two suicide truck-bombs killed 241 U.S. military personnel and 58 French soldiers during a peacekeeping mission Lebanon.

Toby Nave’s grandfather was a Navy soldier stationed offshore when the bombings took place and was part of the mission to rescue wounded Marines or trapped by the explosions.

The Beirut Conflict, Nave said, was the largest loss of life in a single day for…