The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, July 5, 1996                  TAG: 9607050217
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
                                            LENGTH:   15 lines

AN HONORABLE BEGINNING

ILLUSTRATION: Photos

CANDICE C. CUSIC/The Virginian-Pilot

HUY NGUYEN/The Virginian-Pilot

Carmen Gordon christens a Navy sealift ship at Newport News

Shipbuilding Thursday. The ship was named after her husband, Master

Sgt. Gary Ivan Gordon, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor

for saving a downed pilot in Somalia. by CNB