Based on family names and individual stories, there are many hundreds of American dead with Irish heritage, including Americans who through parents or grandparents had become Irish citizens. This is a tribute to several of these brave Irish men and women.
Marian Betancourt highlights the McAllister Towing Company, a family business that has been working the waters of New York since 1876.
It says a lot about the glacial slowness of some religious and political debates in the U.S. that "Inherit the Wind", the famed 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee now playing on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, seems more relevant today than the era in which it was written.