DATE: Tuesday, November 11, 1997            TAG: 9711110397

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WOMAN GETS A CHANCE TO THANK RESCUERS

TAMARA VONINSKI/The Virginian-Pilot

Mary Lou Brisson, seated, was helped from her submerged car in the

Elizabeth River last week by Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Steven H.

Kendrick, left; Hospitalman Aaron Julian, center; and Billie J.

Spencer. Brisson, a Portsmouth resident, was parking her car when

she sneezed, hit her head on the steering wheel and inadvertently

slammed her foot on the accelerator, launching the car into the

river. A ceremony Monday honored her rescuers.

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