USS Michael Murphy commissioned in Manhattan
Dignitaries join Dan and Maureen Murphy, parents of Patchogue-Medford High School graduate Lt. Michael Murphy, to commission the Navy's newest guided-missile destroyer in Manhattan. The Navy SEAL was killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan in 2005 while trying to save his team. Videojournalist: Chris Ware (Oct. 6, 2012) (October 6, 2012 9:38 PM)
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They were the words his father knew would bring him to tears. Words his mother wondered whether she could muster the grit to utter aloud.
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.
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