Following Years-Long Effort, Sen. Murphy Applauds Navy Award for Heroic WWII Waterbury Veteran, Lt. Father Thomas Conway
January 09, 2021
January 09, 2021
HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 9 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release:
Following years-long efforts to posthumously award the Navy Cross--the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration for extraordinary heroism--for Waterbury native Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Father Thomas Conway, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday applauded the U.S. Navy on its announcement they would be making the award. Father Conway, who grew up o . . .
Following years-long efforts to posthumously award the Navy Cross--the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps' second-highest military decoration for extraordinary heroism--for Waterbury native Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Father Thomas Conway, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday applauded the U.S. Navy on its announcement they would be making the award. Father Conway, who grew up o . . .