C J,
Thanks for sending this!
Virgie and Hoshi
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Subject: FW: USS New York
Hi Everyone,
I thought you all might enjoy this one.
C J
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Subject: USS New York
USS New York
Artists Rendering of the USS New York
With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navys 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
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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.
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite,
La., to cast the ships 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 his neck
stood up.
It had a big meaning to it for all of us, he said. They knocked us down.
They cant keep us down. Were going to be back.
The ships motto? - Never Forget
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