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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on March 01, 2008, 04:00:57 PM
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USS New York, With Steel From World Trade Center, Set for Christening
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/348745/1_21_030108_USSNewYork01.jpg)
A new U.S. Navy ship to be christened Saturday was built partly using steel from the 9/11 ruins of the World Trade Center.
The USS New York is now stationed in Avondale, La., where the christening ceremony is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Central time, according to Northrop Grumman, the ship's manufacturer.
The company says on its Web site that the bow-stem of the ship, the seventh to be named "New York," includes 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center.
The USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship, is 684 feet long, can top 24 mph, and holds a crew of 360 sailors and three Marines. It is expected to be based in Norfolk, Va.
story (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334258,00.html)
I hope it gets an opportunity for some payback soon.
edited title for verb tense
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So do I, Wretch . . . so do I. A friend of mine was on the CBS special that was filmed by the two French filmmakers. He was part of "Lucky 7" that day. And, there's what's left of Engine 6 in the New York State Museum--it was designed to pump water to the top of the Towers. This friend of mine drove that pumper two days before the attacks. He lost count of the number of friends whose funerals he had to go to, somewhere in the 70s.
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I saw a news article somewhere about the christening ceremonies.
Apparently tons of people were there.
Probably more than what shows up for "anti-war" protests.
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I hope it gets an opportunity for some payback soon.
Same here.
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Nice looking ship. The World Trade Center is reincarnated and wants revenge. :evillaugh:
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(http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/USS-New-York-thumb.jpg)
a picture of her her sister ship underway, the USS San Antonio.
much larger and cooler version (https://www.pms317.navy.mil/images/17underwayHiRes.jpg)