Proud Sailor Decommissioned: The USS Enterprise

She had homes in Norfolk, Va., and Alamede, Calif., was the first of her kind to make it through the Suez Canal and attended every U.S. conflict from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the war in Iraq. She had a storied military career during the Vietnam War, was the ipso facto mother to 100,000. On Friday, the U.S. Navy held a formal ceremony for the USS Enterprise, marking her decommissioning after 55 years of service, (read more)