Boston Public Garden plaque honors Michael Patrick Quinn of Charlestown, U.S. Marine Killed in Vietnam

 


On April 21, 1986, city officials led by Boston Mayor Ray Flynn and Veterans Services Director Tom Lyons, along with Henry Lee of the Friends of the Public Garden and members of the Paget family, placed this plaque on the bridge crossing the lagoon on the Public Garden, in memory of Charlestown native Second Lieutenant Michael Patrick Quinn, a US Marine who was killed in action in Vietnam on August 29,1969. 

Quinn worked summers on the swan boats on the Public Garden lagoon.  He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1964 and attended Holy Cross College in Worcester.  Read more about Lt. Quinn, who was awarded a Purple Heart, on the Wall of Faces

The Michael Patrick Quinn plaque, along with the Swan Boats, are being added to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail, a collection of public landmarks that chronicle the Irish experience in Boston from the 17th century to the present.  



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