Three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross have christened a U.S. Navy warship bearing his name — and have secured a promise that the ship will visit Ireland. The future USS Patrick Gallagher is a guided missile destroyer that is under construction at Maine's Bath Iron Works that bears the name of the late Irish citizen and U.S.
Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, seen in this file photo in Vietnam . Three sisters of Gallagher, a Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross have christened a U.S. Navy warship bearing his name, Saturday, July 27, 2024, and secured a promise that the ship will visit Ireland . This photo provided by Bath Iron Works shows streamers bursting into the air as the USS Patrick Gallagher is christened at a ceremony at the Bath Iron Works on Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Bath, Maine.
Pauline Gallagher, one of the sisters, told a crowd at the shipyard that the destroyer bearing her brother’s name helps put to rest her mother’s fear that memories of her son would be forgotten. Joined by sisters Rosemarie Gallagher and Teresa Gallagher Keegan, they smashed bottles of sparkling wine on the ship’s hull. A Navy band broke into “Anchors’ Aweigh” as streams appeared in the air overhead.Aer Lingus pilots vote to accept a pay raise. It ends a dispute that canceled hundreds of flightsThe Irish influence was at the event hard to miss. An Irish flag joined the Stars and Stripes over the audience. A Navy band played the Irish anthem, and bagpipes performed “My Gallant Hero.
Teresa Gallagher Keegan described her brother as a humble man who tried to hide his service in Vietnam, until he was awarded the Navy Cross, making it impossible. She said Gallagher’s hometown had been preparing to celebrate his return. “Ironically the plane that carried my brother’s coffin home was the plane that would have brought him home to a hero’s welcome,” she said.
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