Launch
The ship was launched on 23 June 1990, sponsored by Mrs. Glenwood "Tookie" Clark, Jr., wife of retired Vice Admiral Glenwood Clark, on 29 June 1991. Commander Normand remained in command.
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“I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is made ... and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.”
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