At a recent event in Pittsburgh, Sullivan met the daughter of the late Margaret Jaros Woods, who was engaged to Joseph “Red” Sullivan, the middle of the five brothers. A few weeks later, she participated in a reunion of the USS The Sullivans Association in Buffalo, N.Y., where the original USS The Sullivans, now decommissioned, is docked at a military park. She participated in her first such reunion there 40 years ago as a young girl with her parents when that ship was brought there.

It’s hoped the current USS The Sullivans, a guided missile destroyer, can be docked at the same Staten Island pier where it was commissioned in April 1997, Sullivan said. That pier, now named Sullivans Pier, is across New York Harbor from the Brooklyn Navy Yard where the Juneau was commissioned in 1942.

“It’s pretty poignant to think about the fact that 75 years ago is when the Juneau left from that area, because that where the Juneau was commissioned,” Sullivan said. The ship was commissioned on Feb. 14, 1942.