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Ceremony to Name Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters after NYPD and FDNY 9/11 Heroes Vincent Danz and Jeffrey Palazzo
November 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
There will be a ceremony to name two Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters after two Coast Guard Reservists who responded in their other capacities to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
The ceremony will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 1:00pm at the Battery Park East Coast World War II Memorial.
Fast Response Cutter 62 will be named after Port Security Specialist Second Class Vincent Danz, who was an NYPD ESU officer assigned to the Emergency Service Unit Truck 3.
Fast Response Cutter 63 will be named after Machinery Technician First Class Jeffrey Palazzo, who was an FDNY firefighter assigned to Rescue Five.
Both men served honorably as Coast Guard Reservists at Sector New York and both died in the line of duty while responding to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The Battery Park East Coast World War II Memorial is located on the south end of the park, east of Dewey Promenade.
Battery Park East Coast World War II Memorial
1 Battery Place
New York, NY 10004