“But it turned out none of the people I comforted in Beirut asked me a religious question. It was just ‘if I die, tell my mother I love her.’ Most of those Marines were too young to have their own children.”

Arnold Resnicoff · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-23

Resnicoff reflected that none of the Marines he comforted in Beirut asked religious questions, but simply asked him to tell their mothers they loved them.