SR 82 section named for Lance Cpl. Sliwinski, killed by terrorists 33 years ago

WARREN

Nearly 33 years after his death in a terrorist bombing of Marines in Lebanon, Stanley Sliwinski has a permanent memorial with his name posted on a half-mile stretch of state Route 82 in Brookfield.

Thanks to passage of an Ohio House bill sponsored by state Reps. Sean O’Brien of Bazetta, D-63rd, and Michael O’Brien of Warren, D-64th, the highway section has been named “Lance Corporal Stanley J. Sliwinski Memorial Highway.”

In a ceremony Friday at the Holiday Inn Express, the young Marine’s parents, John and Mildred Sliwinski of Brookfield, and several of his siblings discussed the memories of their son and brother, one of 243 Marines killed in a terrorist bombing of their Beirut barracks Oct. 23, 1983. Sliwinski, who graduated from Warren’s John F. Kennedy High School in 1982, was 20 years old.

“Stan was a good kid, [and] he served because he wanted to,” said his brother Michael Sliwinski. “He paid for our freedom, and we’re proud of that.”

“He had a good heart,” said Sliwinski’s sister, Diane Morgan, a retired Trumbull County teacher, who recalled that shortly before his death, the Marine had purchased Christmas gifts for the entire family – his four brothers and sisters and his parents.

“That speaks volumes about what kind of person he was,” she said.

Read more about the ceremony and what his parents had to say in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.