Guests watch Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speak during the livestream of the USS Iowa commissioning ceremony in Groton, Connecticut ...

(Illustration courtesy of the U.S. Navy) In those christening ceremonies, she said, “Thanks to fellow Iowa teacher, Kelly Sullivan, sponsor of USS The Sullivans DDG-68, a ship to honor the five ...

Family members of Iowa's famous naval heroes, the five Sullivan brothers, took special meaning from the commissioning of the ...