Sayville Michael Murphy Team

10/10/2026

Proud Sayville moment to host one of Sayville's own, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina, at the LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum.

10/06/2026

Come one! Come all!

Come down to The Sayville Inn on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, from 5-9 p.m.

The senior gentlemen is John St. Lawrence, a longtime Sayville Legion leader and current Historian. He and his wife, CarolAnn, created a database of thousands of documents for 600 veterans interred locally. It took them years to create. The couple were recognized with a Congressional commendation for this amazing project. You can search the archive for a veteran by name: https://www.restingvetsofsayville.com

You can register here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-lt-michael-p-murphy-museum?attribution_id=sl%3A91652904-76a4-4bd0-8b75-cc3367dfdf9d&lang=en_US&ts=1788373235&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp30-treatment-5&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&cp_src=d

09/27/2026

Proud to run today’s Tunnel to Towers run in memory of Jamie Atkinson for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Jamie was a 2000 Sayville HS graduate and a board member of the Murphy Museum. Jamie passed away last summer from his illness. He is not forgotten. We remember all those we lost that day.

09/23/2026

Come one! Come all! You are invited to the 5th Annual Sangria Salute at the Sayville Inn on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from 5-9 p.m.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Michael Murphy lead the fight against terrorism as a Navy SEAL. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for knowingly sacrificing his life to give his team a change to live.

100% of all proceeds benefit the LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum. There is a $50 suggested donation.

Special thanks goes to Sayville Michael Murphy Team Members Chuck Cabrerra (Sayville Inn) and Rich D'Andrea (Raynor and D'Andrea Funeral Homes). Chuck donates the beverages and food and his wonderful restaurant. Rich donates all the warm, kind wait staff you'll meet that night.

The team is made up of twenty additional locals, coaches of sports teams, local teachers and business owners....local people who made a commitment to our mission which is to inspire local devotion to the Museum and to weave the Museum into our civic tapestry. We are succeeding!

Please see the first comment for a past article from when we first ran the event in the comments. Also in the comments is a great picture of the Desert Patrol Vehicle named in honor our team leaders Chuck and Rich and their families....as well as the Keghilian family and all team members.

You’re invited to the annual Sangria Salute, a benefit for the LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum! Please join us:

Sangria Salute
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
5-9 p.m.
The Sayville Inn, 199 Middle Road, Sayville
$50 suggested donation

Enjoy an open bar and appetizers as we set out to raise $10,000 for this local attraction! Rich D’Andrea of Raynor & D’Andrea Funeral Homes and Chuck Cabrera of The Sayville Inn are donating all food, beverages and labor for the evening, so 100% of the monies can go directly to the museum.

Please RSVP online by October 9:
www.raynordandrea.com

09/06/2026

We'd like the recognize the tribute the family of James Bast left for our community at Sayville's Common Ground. For those of you who missed this important Newsday article, we're including it here. We're pasting the article in the comments because not everyone subscribes to Newsday.

The Murph Foundation is a charity Michael Murphy's Gold Star family created with the death benefits they received after Michael Murphy made the ultimate sacrifice. Thanks to the Murph Foundation and the Sayville Michael Murphy Team, for the past four years, one graduating Sayville High School senior is awarded a Michael Murphy scholarship. That scholarship is named in memory of Sayville resident James Bast, a retired NYPD service member who succumbed to his 9/11 illness. James contracted that illness seeking the remains of everyone we lost on 9/11.

The Sayville Michael Murphy Team gathered four years ago to decide what resident deserves the honor of the naming. We all had the same thought at the same time....James Bast.

The benches at the memorial are engraved with phrases honoring those who died and calling for a hopeful future.

09/05/2026

There Is Nothing We Can't Do Together!

Stay tuned for information for our 5th annual Sangria Salute...which is usually in late October.

In the meantime, it gives us great pleasure to announce that the South Shore Foundation's (SSTF) inaugural golf outing is scheduled for September 28th at the West Sayville Golf Course. A post-event gathering is scheduled for the Portly Villager.

Sponsorships are still available but are going fast! Even honorees are Mark and Maureen Casaburi. 95% of all funds are donated directly to worthwhile causes.

The mission of the South Shore Foundation is to raise funds and provide support through an emergency community fund for urgent situations affecting members of the community, especially Sayville families. The foundation prioritizes the privacy of those it helps over the public recognition of those who donate. It's about discrete giving because our friends and neighbors need help.

The South Shore Together Foundation is also launching a scholarship fund for exceptional senior athletes and non-athletes from Sayville High School. Foundation leaders believe participating in sports and school activities fosters character and virtue and that our youth will lead our community one day.

The leadership team is led by two generations of locals, friends and neighbors who've helped others for decades.....as well as their adult children. That is how we prepare the next generation to lead after we are gone. The gold trunk and branches in its logo reach upward, like our youth. Being young means having big dreams. Its purple roots reach humbly to the earth, to the water and nutrients that sustain us all. Being wise means being dependable, people you count on.

The Foundation is patterned after the BBP (or Bayport Blue Point) Foundation which has donated over $1,000,000 since it was founded in 1989.


If you know a solid, good person or family struggling to get on their feet, or if want to get involved to support the South Thore Together Foundation, you can email them at [email protected].

08/30/2026

Marcus Luttrell spoke recently before Congress on the benefits of Ibogaine, a psychedelic treatment for addiction and trauma. No single person is more responsible for the telling of the nature and details of Michael Murphy's sacrifice than Marcus Luttrell, who is the Lone Survivor. You can learn more about ibogaine from the charity's webpage: https://www.americansforibogaine.org/about/

Many admire SEALS and all members of the Armed Forces for putting their lives in peril in the service of our great country. But what price do veterans pay for their service, on both their physical and mental health? That is something all of us need to think more about.

If you want to do something about it, email your representative in Congress and the Senate to ask them to do whatever it takes to make ibogaine accessible to all who need it, especially our veterans. I list their contact information below.

Yet I also ask you to watch Marcus' testimony. You will learn a lot about the cost of war. Withholding a treatment that can help people who have given so much is the least this country can do.

Congressman Garbarino - https://garbarino.house.gov/contact
Congressman LaLota - https://lalota.house.gov/
Congressman Suozzi - https://suozzi.house.gov/address_authentication?form=/contact/request-an-appearance
Congresswoman Gillen - https://gillen.house.gov/contact
US Senator Gillibrand - https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/email-me/
US Senator Schumer - https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck

08/09/2026

Meet Jamie!

Jamie was named in honor of the late great Jamie Atkinson. A trustee for the LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum, Jamie was also a 2000 graduate of Sayville High School, the youngest chief in Community Ambulance history and a decorated MTA detective. Jamie lost his long, hard fight against 9-11 related cancer last summer.

The MTA bestowed another honor on Jamie. The MTA Tunnel for Towers team was named in his honor! Sign up for Team Jamie for this year's Tun to Towers 5K Run/Walk in Brooklyn on Sunday, September 27th: https://nycrun.t2t.org/teamjamiemtapd This year marks the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

08/02/2026

Great visit to the LT Michael P. Murphy Navy SEAL Museum from an important Stony Brook group:

https://sbmatters.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-honor-packs-leads-visit-to-museum-honoring-local-military-hero/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTcle9wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMXVKbDZUT0FaWFhVck11MFhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEepRViKUpqRWVOTMozDyQn7fQKEAD9FbosaZLU8xdCSArdLwjas-a8pCwbrQc_aem_OJZpNcmHveoZuliTyJ1DCw

On June 28, 2005, Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, a United States Navy SEAL officer, led a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team in the Hindu Kush mountains tasked with locating a key Taliban commander. During the mission, the team was ambushed and heavily outnumbered by anti-coalition militia. Under inte...

07/08/2026

The Sayville Michael Murphy Team could not be more proud to see the installation of a Pave Hawk helicopter and a desert patrol vehicle (DPV). The DPV acknowledges our team's work over these past eight years.

I appreciate the special recognition of the Cabrera, D'Andrea and Keghilian families and the rest our team. Both the helicopter and DPV were installed to honor the anniversary of Operation Red Wings (ORW). Michael Murphy sacrificed himself to give his team a chance to live in Afghanistan at Operation Red Wings.

Special thanks to Paul Doran Art/Photography - Long Island Nature for these wonderful photographs: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EUfEit3Ux/. The plaque for the DPV was from our team's photographs.

The mission of our team is to inspire devotion to the legacy of Michael Murphy and to weave the Museum into our civic fabric. We are succeeding thanks to the amazing generosity of residents from the Greater Sayville community.