Pacific Central Region Navy Leaguers Attend Presentation of Purple Hearts

摘要

Pacific Central Region members Carey Barnecut, Carrie Barnecut (the region's president), Julio Blea and Ryan Fahlen-kamp attended a Purple Heart presentation ceremony on Sept. 3 that was 20 years — if not more — in the making. Presented in Freedom Park at Coast Guard Base Alameda, California, the Purple Hearts were awarded posthumously to family members of Oiler 1st Class Edward W. Kelleher and Quartermaster Arthur J. Deasy. Kelleher and Deasy served on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, UB-91, off the coast of England on Sept. 23,1918, shortly before World War I ended officially.