In 1989, he was honored by the Gathering of Eagles Program of the Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base.[8] In 2001, Hudner presented Daisy Brown Thorne with several of Jesse Brown's posthumous medals at Mississippi State University.[36] In May 2012, the Secretary of the Navy announced that an Template:Sclass- guided missile destroyer would be named USS Thomas Hudner.[45][46] The ship was christened on April 1, 2017, with Hudner in attendance,[47] and commissioned in Boston on 1 December 2018.[48]