Anyone seen this?

[SHANE23]

I just got this email from my step dad...

 

Here she is!!

 

Here she is!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USS New York

 

 

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the

 

World Trade Center.

 

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 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.'

 

[CDBS14]

i though the ship set sail like a year ago, i remember it was big on the news here in NY.

[V1P3R_1]

My brother served aboard the USS Arkansas (CGN -41) during the early 80s, and he is a bit of a Naval history buff. He did a little research about the USS New York, and was telling me that the people who built her actually did treat her construction like that of a church or some other sacred structure. Very cool indeed.

 

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[SHANE23]

I don't have any idea when she set sail. I had not seen it and like I said I just got the email from him. If it is old then I am sorry but I thought it was pretty cool.

[CDBS14]

SHANE23 ]

I don't have any idea when she set sail. I had not seen it and like I said I just got the email from him. If it is old then I am sorry but I thought it was pretty cool.

 

yea actually it happened in march last year. I think the ship came that year for NAVY day, not sure, if it comes this year i will go see it. I also have not gone to the intrepid in a long time.