<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2OhJO0_0wOVZna400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2OhJO0_0wOVZna400" width="1320" height="743" >WASHINGTON STATE — The newest Coast Guard Cutter honors a woman you may have never heard of but made incredible sacrifices for our country.“It was a complete and total honor and surprise,” said Betty Finch Murphy.Betty Finch Murphy's mother, Florence Ebersole Smith Finch was a Filipino-American and part of the resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.In 1944, she was discovered, tortured, and confined to a cell until American forces liberated the Philippines in 1945.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Q2gvj_0wOVZna400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Q2gvj_0wOVZna400" width="648" height="365" >“She never had PTSD from her experience," said Murphy. "I used to ask her why not, and she said because when she when she was in her cell squatting in a little four by six cell, and she had to squat all day, she kept saying to herself, “I will survive”.After the war, she moved to America and joined the Coast Guard Reserves and now a permanent part of the service has her name.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=31gmoZ_0wOVZna400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=31gmoZ_0wOVZna400" width="648" height="365" >“You read all about her history and everything that she did for the United States, and it’s such an honor to serve on a vessel with her namesake,” said Ensign Hali Hanley of the U.S. Coast Guard.The Fast Response Cutter will primarily serve in Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Columbia River.“We will be supporting the living marine resources mission. We’ll also be doing some counter-narcotics and as always search and rescue is always first priority for the Coast Guard here,” said Lt. Connor Ives, the Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Cutter Florence Finch.All while honoring a woman who sacrificed for our country during the greatest fight for freedom in modern history.</div></body>

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New Coast Guard vessel in Puget Sound honors WWII hero's sacrifices and service

WASHINGTON STATE — The newest Coast Guard Cutter honors a woman you may have never heard of but made incredible sacrifices for our country. “It was a complete and total honor and surprise,” said Betty Finch Murphy. Betty Finch Murphy's mother, Florence Ebersole Smith Finch was a Filipino-American...