SUCCESS! The USS Gallagher was officially named this morning!

Always gotta help out the Devil Dogs! Lets get this man a ship!

The USS Gallagher! Sounds really cool.

just imagine... SSR Gallagher with the story behind it.

Request that DDG317 be named after USMC Cpl Patrick Gallagher awarded the Navy Cross and later gave his life during combat for his adopted country.

I support the request to name the DDG ship to be named after Corporal Patrick "Bob" Gallagher

A true hero

I support this petition to name the Navy ship Patrick Gallagher, a young man from the part of Ireland where my grandfather was born who adopted America as his new home and who was willing to fight in Vietnam for her. His bravery in saving his comrades earned him a Navy Cross and his subsequent death in action deserves consideration to have this ship named after him.

Thank you John for introducing the poetry of Archibald MacLeish and his concise capture of the wordless message that we hear from those that have stood for us, without ever knowing the result. Encouragement for all

Deserved for duty, honor, and service.

From Mayo ireland

Perth, Australia

Delighted to be involved in this very worthwhile campaign.

delighted to give my support,to remember this very brave Mayo man

please name a ship after Patrick Bob Gallagher

A Brave Soldier

I want to support this worthy petition because l am a friend of Payricks brother and he was held in high esteem in Ballyhaunis. My mother related the event of the day his coffin was brought to the church.

The following gives us an idea of the times for Patrick and his colleagues: Six of the Irish dead were volunteers in the US Marines, the elite Corps of seaborne infantry who live--and die--by the motto Semper Fidelis. Always faithful. In Vietnam, Marine units drew many of the toughest and bloodiest assignments, suffering casualty rates higher than in the Corp’s legendary World War II campaigns against the Japanese. Bernard ‘Brian Óg’ Freyne from Ballaghadareen joined the Corps in 1966, following in the footsteps of his Irish cousin Roderick O’Connell. In a moving tribute on TheWall-USA, Roderick recalls how he left Bernard in Vietnam after he himself was wounded and evacuated back the States. Although separated, the cousins kept in touch. O’Connell still recalls how Bernard’s last letter reached him a week after the news that he had been killed in action. Freyne died in Quang Nam Province on 10 March 1967, aged 21. Patrick Gallagher from Mayo also followed an Irish-American relative, Gerald Moylan, into the Marine Corps. After Patrick’s death in Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Moylan escorted his remains back to Ballyhaunis and presented the Gallagher family with Patrick’s Navy Cross, the Marine Corps’ highest award for battlefield bravery. Back in Quang Nam Province, Patrick’s loss was also keenly felt by fellow Marine Frank G Erwin, who was right beside the Mayoman when he was killed in combat on 30 March 1967, aged 23. “His death,” Erwin later wrote from his home in Florida, “was a profound loss to our entire company, as everyone looked to Patrick for courage in battle.” When he visits the US capital, Frank Erwin always stops at the Wall. “Panel 17 E is where they all are”, he says, referring to Patrick and the rest of his Marine squad who perished in Danang that March morning. Erwin also honours the Mayo-born Marine in a more personal manner. To ensure a constant reminder of Corporal Gallagher’s great courage and love for his adoptive country, Erwin named

A hero in every sense of the word

Id just like to say that it shows a lot of honor courage and commitment to do what this man did. Especially as an immigrant on a visa, he could have easy walked away and went home but he truly showed unwavering and selfish dedication to a place he wasn't in long enough to call home.

RIP & THANK YOU!!