Pictures: USS Enterprise Media Day

Maria Elena Girty weeps during a memorial service held Friday morning to honor the victims of the 1969 flight deck fire aboard the USS Enterprise. Girty traveled to Norfolk from California to honor her husband Delvert D. Girty, who was killed in the fire. "It's very emotional to be aboard the place where my husband was killed," she said. "I wanted my son to be able to come pay his respects to his father he never knew."

( Kaitlin McKeown/Daily Press / November 30, 2012 )

Maria Elena Girty weeps during a memorial service held Friday morning to honor the victims of the 1969 flight deck fire aboard the USS Enterprise. Girty traveled to Norfolk from California to honor her husband Delvert D. Girty, who was killed in the fire. "It's very emotional to be aboard the place where my husband was killed," she said. "I wanted my son to be able to come pay his respects to his father he never knew."

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