BOSTON—Vice President Dick Cheney marks Independence Day with a visit to the USS Constitution in Boston.
Cheney read the oath of office for the military during a reenlistment ceremony Friday morning aboard the Constitution, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship.
Earlier in the day, the ship, called "Old Ironsides," was a backdrop for about two dozen Massachusetts residents who were sworn-in as U.S. citizens.
A Cheney spokeswoman said the vice president greeted the new citizens before taking part in the reenlistment ceremony.
She said Cheney left Boston early afternoon Friday to spend the holiday weekend in his home state, Wyoming.
The USS Constitution was commissioned in 1797 and never lost a battle. It's docked at Boston's historic Charlestown Naval Yard, a national park.
