SOURCE: Newsday, September 29, 2016
Officials announced on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, that a $400,00 grant has been secured to construct an 11,000-square-foot Navy SEAL museum and cadet training facility in West Sayville that will be named after Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Patchogue native who was 29 when he was killed in Afghanistan in 2005.
A new Navy SEAL museum in memory of Patchogue native Michael P. Murphy, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2005, will be built in West Sayville next to the Long Island Maritime Museum, government officials announced Thursday.
The Lt. Michael Murphy Navy SEAL Museum honors Murphy, 29, who died trying to save fellow soldiers in a gunfight with members of the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.
