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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive October 2006: Big things going on
Across the street from our house the President and his family were gathered this morning.       On Saturday, October 7, 2006, Northrop Grumman Newport News is christening the nation’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, George H. W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship’s namesake and 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, is attending the ceremony along with his wife Barbara and their daughter, Doro Bush Koch, Mrs. Koch also serves as the ship’s sponsor and will do the traditional honor of breaking a bottle of American sparkling wine across the ship’s bow during the ceremony.
Very cool, Bea!! Wasn't the motorcade awesome? He was here two years in a row and we saw the motorcade go right by and Air Force One fly overhead. What, exactly, is across the street from your house?? A harbor?
Ditto on the very cool!! Your pictures turned out great!
That is awesome, Bea! Great pics!
My SIL is a bigwig in the administration of Northrup Grumman and she flies all over in the corporate jet. She goes to a lot of the christenings so she may have been there. I'll have to ask. Cool pics!
I live across the street from the dry dock where they built the carrier. We watched them build it. I didn't take those pictures. They were by professional photographers at the ceremony. The ship's stern faces my house, and the guests sat below the bow. In the second picture you can see the huge crane in the right background that says RUMMAND. That is almost above my house when it is pulled back like that.
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