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11/21/94
RESOLUTION NO. 9255
CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
PRESENTS THIS
RESOUITION OF dPPRECIRTION
TO
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS J. PATTERSON, USMS (Ret)
WHEREAS, Thoma.6 J. Patteuon aeb.i,dea .in .the City o6 San Rabaet and hotd6
,the rank ob Rear AdmiAat .in .the United State6 MaAit me Se vice
(Retihed) and .c.6 the Chaihman o6 the Normandy '94 Committee ob
the SS Jeremiah 0' Brien, a 6iity-one yeah otd Liberty Ship; and
WHEREAS, the SS Jenem.i.ah O'BAi.en .c.6 .the on.by operating .6h.ip in the wored
that wa6 with the 5, 000-ve6.6et armada during the .inva6.ion o6 .the
Normandy coa6t; and
WHEREAS, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien 6teamed a total ob 17,123 naut�cat mita
.in Jive month6 and 6.ive day6 with a votunteer crew who6e avehage
age wa6 67; and
WHEREAS, .the 6h,rp entered 17 pont.6 on three continent6 to pne6erve the memory
o6 .the unbetievabte e66oAt made by the Gree woAtd to debeat
to.tat i.ta&ianizm; and
WHEREAS, AdmiAat PatteAzon wab the motivating borce which enabled this me6.50ge
to be pre.6ented to the peop.be6 o6 the woktd duh.ing the F.i6tieth
Ann,iveh6ary o6 the commemonat.ion o6 D Day at Omaha and Utah Beache6,
Normandy, France; and
WHEREAS, th" joint e66or t o6 an aging and ageee,66 6hip and vofunteer new
6ucceeded .in every tapect due to the teadeuhip and per6evehence
o6 Admikat Patteuon.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Councit ob the City o6 San Ra6aee,
on behaeb ob att .c t6 lez identz, hereby acknowtedge,6 the .impoA Lance
o6 the eb6ort6 o6 Rear Adm.chae Thoma.6 J. Patteuon .in the 6ucce666ue
voyage o6 the SS Jeremiah O' Brien and expre66e6 our deep pride
that he iz a ka i.den t o6 ouh community.
MAYOR
COUNCIL MEMBERS
CfTY MANAGER
ATTESTED BY MY HAND THIS
DAY OF lug " ;) /
CITY CLERK