Warship Made From WTC Steel Heads To NYC

2009_10_ussny.jpg The building of the new Navy warship, the USS New York, has finally been completed and the ship is leaving the Louisiana shipyard for the Big Apple today. The 684 feet long and 105 feet wide ship, constructed by Northrup Grumman, was built with 7.5 tons of steel from WTC wreckage. It will be commissioned Nov. 7 in the city and then head to its homeport of Norfolk, VA.

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"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who do not."

- L. Jefferson Cooper

great symbolism. now whaddayagonnadowithit?

Yar, fight the scurvy dog Taliban sailing the high seas of course, me matey.

I wonder if people will be able to see the marvel of our progress with that big hole from the commissioning ceremony. Maybe they could just print out a big poster of what the towers might, eventually look like.

Still wouldn't be as impressive as the completed work that's on it's way.

At the rate construction is going, maybe we can re-use the steel in this ship for the new WTC once it is decommissioned sometime in the future.

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