Thought even non-New Yorkers would appreciate this.
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From: "James Farley" <baypop@verizon.net>
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For you New Yorkers
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From: Farley, Timothy
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Thought you might find this interesting.
Artists Rendering of the USS New York
With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navy's amphibious
assault ship USS New York has already made history. It was built with 24 tons
of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.
USS New York is about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch in
mid-2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the Gulf Coast last
summer, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back
at the yard near New Orleans two weeks after the storm.
It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that
include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360
sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and
assault craft.
"It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make
sure that bin Laden is taken out, his terrorist organization is taken out,"
said Glenn Clement, a paint foreman. "He came in through the back door and
knocked our towers down and (the New York) is coming right through the front
door, and we want them to know that."
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite,
La., to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on
Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,"
recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment
for everybody there."
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center
steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck
stood up."
"It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down.
They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."
The ship's motto? - 'Never Forget'
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