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Marine veteran Daniel Penny honored for actions on New York subway: 'Service and sacrifice'
Daniel Penny, the subject of a high profile manslaughter trial, was presented on Wednesday with the Semper Fidelis achievement award by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day event in Boston, Massachusetts.
Penny was acquitted last year in the 2023 killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway.
Prosecutors asked the court to dismiss the main manslaughter charge to avoid a hung jury, and they ultimately found Penny not guilty of the lesser charge, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Daniel Penny departs the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City on Thursday, December 5, 2024. The jury finalized the third day of deliberations in Penny’s trial for the 2023 death of Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway train. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital )
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Penny’s defense attorneys, Thomas Kenniff and Steve Raiser, traveled with him to the award ceremony and were also presented with appreciation plaques, according to a statement provided to Fox News Digital by Raiser, first reported by the New York Post.
The league honored Penny for “representing the Esprit De Corps of the Marines, defined by selfless service and sacrifice, when he risked his life by defending the people on that NYC train,” Raiser wrote in the statement.
His lawyers, in turn, “defended Danny from a prosecution that never should have been sought,” according to the statement.
Daniel Penny receives award at Iwo Jima event (X / @tomkenniff)
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Outside of the State House, Brig. General Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, took Penny’s hand, looked him in the eye and said, “I’m proud of you, son,” according to Kenniff.
“That is a moment I don’t think any of us will forget,” Kenniff said.
Daniel Penny receives award at Iwo Jima event (X / @tomkenniff)
The Marine Corps League’s John M. MacGillivray said the award goes to “worthy and inspirational recipients.”
“We believe that Daniel Penny and attorneys Raiser and Kenniff deserve such recognition and hope that they will consent to accept these awards,” according to MacGillivray.
“We were honored and humbled to be in the same room being honored alongside many veterans of prior wars, including an Iwo Jima veteran and a retired general who served as one of the Tuskegee Airmen,” Raiser wrote.
Daniel Penny receives award at Iwo Jima event (X / @tomkenniff)
The three accepted the awards, and were photographed together following the Massachusetts State House ceremony.
Organizers said this year’s event, which recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, may be the last due to the dwindling number of Marine survivors still living.
The battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest in American history, claiming 7,000 lives and leaving 20,000 Marines wounded.
The U.S. Marine Corp’s Iwo Jima Memorial in front of the U.S. Capitol, center, and Washington Monument, right, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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More Medals of Honor were awarded for heroism in Iwo Jima, at a total of 27, than in any other battle, according to MacGillivray. The win pushed the Allies ahead in their mission to end World War II.
“This may well be the last time that we conduct this ceremony,” he wrote. “Therefore, we believe that the participation of Daniel Penny and lawyers Raiser and Kenniff will help to make this ceremony a success.”
Daniel Penny receives award at Iwo Jima event (X / @tomkenniff)
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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NEWARK, New Jersey — A United Airlines flight headed to Newark, New Jersey returned to the Los Angeles airport Monday about 40 minutes after taking off for an emergency evacuation after a reported fire, authorities said.
All flights at the LAX International Airport were ordered to remain on the ground for about half an hour during the flight’s return and evacuation, according to advisories from the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported.
The flight, which was en route to Newark Liberty International Airport returned to LAX to address an issue with one of the engines, the airline said in a statement. There was no mention of a fire, but the LA Fire Department said it responded and there was a fire that was contained as of an hour after the plane’s landing.
The flight took off at 10:43 a.m., began to turn around at about 11 a.m. and landed again at 11:19 a.m., according to flight tracker FlightAware.
The LA Fire Department said they assisted with the evacuation of more than 250 passengers and crew. Passengers exited the plane on the taxiway using slides and stairs and were taken to the terminal, the airline said.
The airplane was a Boeing 787-9, a variant of the popular line of 787 Dreamliner long-haul aircraft.
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