Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, the Pacific Area commander and Rear Adm. Peter Gautier, the Coast Guard 11th District commander, host several World War II veterans at the Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward's commissioning ceremony in San Francisco, California, March, 2, 2019. Coast Guard hero Robert Ward, served as coxswain of a landing craft on the Cotentin Peninsula during the invasion of Normandy, during World War II. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer DaVonte' Marrow)