Joseph Murphy said Saturday that he and the Alabama crew's primary concern was for the ship's captain.

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Sergeant Joseph Murphy, a 58-year-old black veteran of the Korean war, the oldest.

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Joseph Murphy, an instructor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, said he had spoken to his son but that he didn't have details on the standoff.

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Corporal Jonathan Horne and Riflemen William Aldridge, James Backhouse and Joseph Murphy were rescuing comrades from an explosion when they were killed in a second blast.

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Murphy is taking over from conservative ex-Democratic Joseph Lieberman.

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