Today we celebrate St. Patrick s Day by taking a brief look at the contributions of a few well-known Irish Americans Sailors.
The list of sailors with Irish heritage who have served this nation with distinction is long. Many have been honored and decorated for their courage under fire. Here s a look at just a few from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
Commodore John Barry
Barry was born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1745. He grew up with a great love for the sea. As a young man, Barry commanded merchant vessels operating out of England. Eventually, he emigrated to America. Joining the Continental Navy at the Revolutionary War outbreak, Barry commanded many Continental Navy vessels.
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One of the many new terms that has entered the average American’s vocabulary since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is “contact tracing.” While quick to the lips of many public health experts, what contact tracing actually is, and why it plays a critical role in stemming the tide of disease transmission, warrants an explanation for the rest of us.
“Contact tracing is not new,” says Hannah Emily Landsberg (Sargent’12, SPH’13), director of case management and contact tracing for Boston University Healthway, “but a lot of people are hearing about it for the first time.”
Contact tracing involves tracking down anyone who might have been exposed to an infectious disease through close contact with someone infected. The goal is to identify exposed people as soon as possible and to get them into quarantine before they potentially become infectious themselves, thereby stemming the spread of the disease within a population. Since BU’s campus-wide c