Nearly seven decades after a teenage Nancy Pelosi stood alongside her powerful parents on what was then a new state-of-the-art fireboat in Baltimore, she grinned as she celebrated a new chapter for the vessel named for her father, former Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr.
“It’s emotional for us. It’s a source of great pride for us,” the U.S. House Speaker said Monday in Lutherville, Maryland, surrounded by four more generations of the D’Alesandro family as they celebrated the preservation of the boat known as the “Tommy” at the Fire Museum of Maryland.
“It is all a recognition of what our men and women in the fire departments across our country do to protect us,” Pelosi said. “So if there’s any purpose in this, including honoring my father, of course, but a larger picture that he would want us all to do, is to always be true to the men and women in blue.”
