
DATE: Friday, May 23, 1997                  TAG: 9705230749

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HONORING MERCHANT SEAMEN

ILLUSTRATION: MOTOYA NAKAMURA photos/The Virginian-Pilot

Above, Jim Owens tosses a wreath into the Elizabeth River off

Nauticus in Norfolk to honor America's merchant seamen. Thursday's

National Maritime Day ceremony was organized by the Port of Norfolk

unit of the Propeller Club of the United States.

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