USS New York
I recieved this from a friend.
Yes, I actually do have one.
Doug
Here SHE is, the USS New York
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."
The ship's motto? "Never Forget"
Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this
country!
Yes, I actually do have one.
Doug
Here SHE is, the USS New York
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."
The ship's motto? "Never Forget"
Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this
country!
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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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(AP) - Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center was headed to a Mississippi shipyard Saturday for use in the USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. It was the Navy's idea to incorporate the steel into the vessel, said Capt. Kevin Wensing, a Navy public affairs officer in Washington. He said the steel was removed Friday from the New York landfill that holds much of the debris from the twin towers and was being shipped to the Northrop Grumman shipyard at Pascagoula, Miss., where construction of the warship is to begin next year.
*In 1909 Henry Ford created the Model T and it got around 30mpg..today's Ford's may be safer and more luxurious but in 100 years we've not really gotten further on a gallon of gasoline have we?*0 -
Sorry if I'm late posting this but really a cool site to celebrate the upcoming commissioning of the USS NEW YORK. Check it out and then go to Youtube and type in Charlie Daniels and listen to his song about it.
http://www.ussnewyork.com/
Pretty neat memorial to the day, with some of the actual steel from the Trade Center Towers melted into the hull.
check it out and notice the ships motto, "NEVER FORGET".
Too bad they couldn't get this commissioning done on 9-11-09.0 -
I think you're a nice guy, I don't doubt that you have friends.
But, you might have lost some here after posting this [;)] too much garbage to get to the message!0 -
[8D]---Man, I just used all my GIGABYTES, just looking at your waste of band space
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What the heck was that!!!!!!!!!!! 0 -
Looks like your pictures of the ship came through as code!
thats the same problem as a couple of the e-mails that you sent to me some time ago. Do we need to pull out an Indian Code book from WWII???????[:D]
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Some friend! Don 0 -
Sorry, I'll go fix it.
Doug0 -
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Good thread.
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Fixed.
Sorry.
Doug0 -
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Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/ussnewyork.asp
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It being the USS New York did Bloomberg, Hillary, and Schumer raise a stink about it having weapons? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ljwrench
It being the USS New York did Bloomberg, Hillary, and Schumer raise a stink about it having weapons?
Maybe the rose a stink about it carrying Marines and sailors instead of puppy dogs and bunnies.0
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