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  • Remember the USS Stark?

    02/14/2003 1:07:02 PM PST · by chemicalman · 36 replies · 654+ views
    Polk Online.com & Navysite.de ^ | 5/8/99 | RON WORD & navysite.de
    MAYPORT NAVAL STATION -- Despite the pomp of the Navy's ceremony decommissioning for the USS Stark, Diana Pierce Ellis could not hold back the tears for her husband and 36 of his shipmates. They died aboard the frigate in 1987 when it was struck by two missiles fired accidentally by an Iraqi jet fighter. ''It's like burying them all over again,'' said Mrs. Ellis. She attended the ceremony Friday putting the warship out of service with her daughter, Randi Lynn, 14, and son Logan, 12, who wears the ship's number, 31, on his T-ball uniform. Her husband, Randy Pierce,...