AVONDALE, La. -- The USS Somerset -- the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites -- was

The USS Somerset - the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites - was christened oahu helicopter tours today in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed short of the terrorists' intended target after passengers stormed the cockpit.
View full size Dignitaries gather around Mary Jo Myers, wife of retired former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, as she breaks a champagne bottle during christening ceremonies for the USS Somerset at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard Shipyard in Avondale, La., Saturday, July 28, 2012. It was the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites, christened Saturday in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed oahu helicopter tours short of the terrorists' intended target after passengers stormed the cockpit.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Somerset County, Pa. Commissioner John Vatavuk speaks during christening ceremonies for the USS Somerset at the Huntington Ingalls Industries Shipyard in Avondale, La., Saturday, July 28, 2012. It was the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites, christened Saturday in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed short of the terrorists' intended target after passengers stormed the cockpit.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
View full size The USS Somerset, which was christened today, is docked at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard Shipyard in Avondale, La., on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. The ship is the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites and embodies many reminders of that fateful day. It can attack in war and rescue people in disaster and it's made with steel from a huge mining crane that became oahu helicopter tours an icon for the Pennsylvania field where one plane came down, said Patrick White, president of the Flight 93 Families organization. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
AVONDALE, La. -- The USS Somerset -- the last of three Navy ships named for 9/11 attack sites -- was christened Saturday in honor of the passengers and crew of the plane that crashed short of terrorists' intended target after passengers stormed the cockpit.
"The men and women of Flight 93 ... thought they were going to San Francisco to work, to play, to learn; to live their lives in peace while others guarded them," said Navy Rear Adm. David Lewis. "Instead they found themselves in a war, on the front lines, in the opening battle. It was a new kind of war, one with new rules, maybe no rules at all. They had no preparation, no training, no guidance.
Flight 93 was hijacked after taking off from New Jersey. It crashed after passengers and crew, some alerted by cell phone calls from loved ones about the other 9/11 attacks in New York, decided to fight the hijackers. Investigators later determined the hijackers oahu helicopter tours intended to crash it into the White House or Capitol in Washington, D.C., where the House and Senate were in session that morning.
About two dozen relatives of the passengers heard Lewis and other military and shipbuilding oahu helicopter tours officials praise oahu helicopter tours their slain family members at Saturday's christening at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Avondale, a New Orleans suburb.
Its bow stem -- the first part of the ship to push through the water -- was made from 7.5 tons of steel melted down from the bucket of a huge coal-mining crane that stood near the crash site and from which miners hung a large American flag to serve as a landmark and to honor the dead. The USS New York's bow stem was made with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center. Steel from the Pentagon will be displayed in a small tribute room in the USS Arlington.
Mary Jo Myers, wife of retired Air Force Gen. Richard oahu helicopter tours B. Myers, the 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, smashed a ribbon-encased bottle of sparkling wine against a sharp-edged breaker bar mounted on the hull.
The Somerset oahu helicopter tours is the last Navy ship that will be built at Avondale, which is scheduled to close once the ship is delivered. Officials are trying to find a civilian oahu helicopter tours shipbuilding or other industrial partner to keep it open.
About 5,000 people worked at Avondale when defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. announced in 2010 that it was spinning off its military shipbuilding division. That spinoff resulted in Huntington Ingalls, based in Newport News, Va.
About 2,600 men and women are currently working on the Somerset. Those numbers are "probably stable for the next few months," with layoffs coming as systems are completed, oahu helicopter tours Irwin F. Edenzon, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, said after the ceremony.
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