Members of American Maritime Officers, along with AMO Plans and STAR Center directors and staff, AMO officials and staff, and members of the American Merchant Marine Veterans, gathered for a National Maritime Day ceremony at the memorial for the crew of El Faro on the STAR Center campus on May 22. Speaking at the ceremony was Dania Beach Mayor A.J. Ryan IV. Delivering the benediction and blessing the wreaths was Father Sanford R. Sears, Port Chaplain – Lieutenant (USCG retired), of Seafarers’ House, Port Everglades.
Mariners from American Maritime Officers and other U.S. merchant mariner unions join for a photo at a National Maritime Day celebration in Norfolk. AMO members at the event included Marissa Strawbridge, Brad Neathery, Ryan Neathery, Keith Neathery, Michael Neathery and AMO Secretary Treasurer Bob Rice.
U.S. Coast Guard officials participate in a wreath laying ceremony in Norfolk at a National Maritime Day event May 22.
AMO attended National Maritime Day observances on the West Coast in San Francisco. Joining AMO West Coast Representative Alex Butler was new AMO member Connor Urbancic, shown here with his father.
Alex Butler and AMO member Connor Urbancic joined surviving World War II merchant marine veterans during National Maritime Day events in California.
In San Francisco, the “West Coast Memorial” is a tribute to Army soldiers, Navy sailors, Marines, Merchant Mariners and Airmen who met their deaths defending our country, specifically from World War II. The West Coast Memorial consists of a curved gray granite wall decorated with sculptures and engraved with the names of 413 missing whose remains were never recovered or identified.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy gives remarks at the National Maritime Day observance in Washington, D.C.
AMO National President Willie Barrere and Alaina Basciano, AMO Assistant Vice President, Government Relations, attended the Department of Transportation National Maritime Day event on May 22.
The Propeller Club of Port Canaveral joined the Navy League, Cape Canaveral Council and the Space Coast Chapter, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni for its event on May 24. AMO National President Willie Barrere was an honorary speaker at the celebration.
