Word: clarksburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Kennedy was just a tyke in Clarksburg, W. Va., back then. The Navy didn't claim him until 1959, four years after Mighty Mo was mothballed in Bremerton, Wash. In fact, Kennedy never figured to serve a day on her. He had retired in 1979 and was working as a security guard in the federal court in San Diego when the phone rang on his birthday, Dec. 13, 1984. His wife Marilyn took the call and relayed the unexpected invitation from the Chief of Naval Operations. "You jumped on that like a buzzard on a dead cow," she told...