Joe wrote:

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Hammer says it was 60 years ago last Friday - on Sept. 27, 1942 - that
Merchant Marine motto was embodied by an 18-year-old Kings Point
Cadet-Midshipman named Edwin J. O'Hara, whom he believes still
deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor.

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"I believe that if Midshipman O'Hara had been in the United States
Navy instead of the Merchant Marine, he would have won a
[congressional medal]," says Hammer. "O'Hara gave his life to save a
dozen lives and personally sank the only German surface warship sunk
by U.S. forces in the entire Battle of the Atlantic during WWII.


Thank you for that bit of history, Joe, I was totally unaware of
it. Clearly I'm not a New Yorker...

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