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USS Michael Murphy commissioned in Manhattan
Updated: October 6, 2012 10:00 PM
By martin.evans@newsday.com
The Navy has scheduled several days of public tours of a new destroyer that will be commissioned in New York next week in honor of a hero SEAL from Patchogue.
The USS Michael Murphy is named for the Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan in June 2005.
Murphy's family will attend the formal commissioning on Oct. 6 in Manhattan.
Seven years after her son perished in a desperate battle on an Afghanistan mountainside, the mother of slain Navy SEAL Michael Murphy Saturday ordered the crew of a warship named in his honor to breathe life into its 9,200 tons of steel and firepower.
Watch the video clip of the ceremony:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/uss-michael-murphy-commissioned-in-manhattan-1.4081735
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