WHEELING — SP5 Patrick O’Shaughnessy of Wheeling was just a few weeks away from returning home from Vietnam when he was killed in action while saving the life of a comrade on June 29, 1969. He was only 22 years of age.

On Wednesday, family and friends joined together with community leaders on Wheeling Island to pay tribute to O’Shaughnessy during a special veterans banner dedication.

Wheeling Mayor Denny Magruder welcomed the guests in attendance during the dedication of the banner, which now hangs above the intersection of Zane and North York streets on Wheeling Island in O’Shaughnessy’s honor.

Magruder introduced The Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, to lead the group in prayer. The mayor thanked Wheeling Operations Superintendent Steve Johnston and

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