The flag at the Valone's home flew at half-mast the day the Marine escort wheeled Donnie's corpse into the funeral home in Palmdale, a small community in central California.
Paris, France. Fall 1983. The flag-draped caskets of the French dead from the Beirut bombing are laid in lines at a memorial ceremony at Les Invalides.
An honor guard stands by during a memorial service for U.S. Marines killed in the terrorist bombing of their camp in Beirut in October. This service took place in an aircraft hanger the morning after these bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base in…