Baby name story: Dallas

In October of 1994, a pregnant Haitian woman named Betsy Veret gave birth aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas.

She and about 500 other Haitian refugees were being returned to their homeland from Guantanamo Bay.

What did she name the baby boy?

Dallas Joseph.

(And here’s another baby named for a Coast Guard boat.)

Source: “Haitian Gives Birth to Son on Trip Home.” Eugene Register-Guard 26 Oct. 1994: 12A.

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