New commemorative plaque, letter from Gov. Sandoval aimed at ensuring that state’s namesake battleship and crew continue “inspiring sailors for as long as there is a United States Navy.”
Nation and World
By KEITH ROGERS / RJ
Divers deposit urns containing ashes of two of the last survivors inside the sunken warship, where they will forever rest alongside the remains of hundreds of their former shipmates.
By KEITH ROGERS / RJ
“I’m not sure we have gained an awful lot from that experience,” says survivor Lenoard Nielsen, 94, of Las Vegas.