Christening for Navy ship named for 9/11 site

Published July 26, 2012 5:31pm ET



NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The USS Somerset, which will be christened Saturday, is the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites and embodies many reminders of that fateful day.

It can attack in war and rescue people in disaster and it’s made with steel from a huge mining crane that became an icon for the Pennsylvania field where one plane came down, said Patrick White, president of the Flight 93 Families organization.

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