Blankenship, Richard
Marines Sergeant

Richard Blankenship, age 26, from Onslow County Hubert, North Carolina .

Parents: Donald R. Blankenship
Spouse: Debra Garris Blankenship
Children: Richard Lane Blankenship

Service era: Beirut bombings

Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Cemetery: Lafayette Memorial Park

Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Raleigh New and Observer (1983)