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{"DDDF1887-5056-A066-6011-F7272891CC22":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"DDDF1887-5056-A066-6011-F7272891CC22","title":"Sen. Schumer Announces Navy's USS Gallagher","summary":"New York, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"March 12, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-announces-navys-uss-gallagher","city":"New York","county":null,"lat":40.7645266,"lng":-73.99960759999999,"description":"On March 12th 2018, after an all-out effort, that included arranging a critical meeting on Long Island between the family of Marine Corps hero Corporal Patrick Gallagher and Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, with great honor, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced today that the U.S. Navy will name one of its next destroyer, the Arleigh Burk-class DDG-127, in honor of USMC Corporal Patrick “Bob” Gallagher.\r\nSchumer paid special tribute to Secretary Spencer for the honoring of Corporal Gallagher. “Without the speedy, professional and decisive response of Secretary Richard Spencer, we would not be here today to make this wonderful announcement. Secretary Spencer knows that Patrick Gallagher’s is a compelling story that fits deeply with the very best traditions of the United States Marine Corps and the way the United States Marine Corps honors its heroes.”\r\nCorporal Patrick Gallagher was an Irish immigrant from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo who settled on Long Island in 1962, volunteered on the senate campaign of Bobby Kennedy and later chose to serve in the Marines Corps of his adopted nation – before he was a citizen. While serving in Vietnam, Corporal Gallagher was awarded the Navy Cross, the nation’s second highest military award, for his extraordinary heroism during a surprise attack he survived, in which he dove on a live grenade and saved his comrades from injury and death. Tragically, after receiving the Navy Cross directly from General William Westmoreland, Corporal Gallagher was killed in a firefight just days before the end of his tour of duty."}}

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