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After being greeted by a 21-gun salute, the warship built from World Trade Center steel USS New York is back home. A New Yorker who knows the harbor better than anyone else, not to mention the pain of Sept. 11, guided it into the city. Harbor pilot Neil Keating, whose firefighter brother Paul was killed on Sept. 11, pulled the warship into place this morning. He told the Post, "It's fitting that 7.5 tons of Twin Towers steel were used to make the bow, because that's where the ship takes a pounding and keeps trudging forward through roughs seas. We're like ambassadors when we go on board."
Also on the ship last night acting as an ambassador, a Yankees ambassador that is, was Mayor Bloomberg. He flew to the ship, his hovercraft landing on deck, just in time to join the crew and catch the Yankees take on the Phillies. "How cool is that that the mayor of New York, the city most affected on 9-11, saw fit to take out time to spend with us?" Marine Col. Mark Desens told the Daily News.
The mayor also threw the crew a few Yanks baseball caps and gave the ship's captain, Cmdr Curt Jones, an official New York City flag that once flew over City Hall. Other guests to the warship include, according to the NY Times, "business executives, military officers and defense contractors" as well as "Jets owner Woody Johnson and the former Navy secretary Gordon R. England" who even stayed overnight.
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no poet could devise a metaphor as perfect as turning the wreckage of the world trade center into a warship. fuck the glorification of war in this city and in this article.
Would you have preferred that they use the steal to build a giant peace sign instead? That would tell the terrorists that we're pussywhipped. Besides, theres enough steal to go around. We can build both!
I personally think its an awesome show of strength.
pussywhipped? you're an idiot
Go to hell Peacenik. Why don't you go to the pier and protest? Lets see what type of reaction you'll get from the crew as well as everyone else.
nice how you assume i'm a liberal because i hate the glorification of war. i'll make an assumption about you: you never joined the army even though you're perfectly capable of doing so. go to iraq or shut up.
I don't think I called you a Liberal, just a peacenik. You could be a right wing peacenik who watches Fox news. Go hug a tree.
I'd join the army, but the Joint Chief's thought my presence on the battlefield would be so overwhelming that the other troops wouldn't get a chance to fight, causing angst among the ranks. I'll fight in my own way.
quit your whining. this ship was made from recycled steel, which makes it a green war machine. that should please even the most sensitive eco-friendly hippie.
They could always just turn it into an anti-glacier device (that's for all you Vonnegut fans out there).
Cats, its simple, Move out of the USA, If you don't like it here or think we should not be able to protect ourselves then leave. This nation was built on our strengths such as military,industrial,faith,and honor. Those of us that believe in the USA no longer want nor wish you to be here.
If you cannot accept the honor meant by the ship then you have no honor, just pack up your stuff and ship out.
Hell I live on the west coast and I am offended by you.
"This nation was built on our strengths such as military,industrial,faith,and honor. Those of us that believe in the USA no longer want nor wish you to be here."
Hahahahahaha...(deep breath)...haaaaaaaahahahahaha...
Please go DIAF.
I love my country for the freedoms and limitations it grants it's citizens, but I'm not so filled with nationalistic dumb-assery to not acknowledge that we have as filthy a history as any other nation and continue to do immoral and fucked up things under the guise of commerce, national defense, and "freedom".
Blind nationalism is for fucktards.
And hey, I can use acronyms too! SMD! KITBFF4ELOLLMFAO!!!!11!!11!one!!!1!eleven!!!
"New York's Good Luck Charm"
Who calls it that?
media douches and probably Bloomturd.
Ellen is the Anti-DiSignore at Gothamist. Straight up reporting without the typical DiSignore classless remarks.
indeed.
and thank goodness there's a reporter who can accurately report the facts without having to use sarcasm as a crutch. JDS is amusing and all, but sometimes it's refreshing to read an article without the heavy handedness that he applies.
Well, it's inaccurate to say that the ship was "greeted by a 21-gun salute." The ship gave the salute to the WTC site.
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As cool as this is, I can think of 5 or 6 waterways I'd rather see this baby enter.
Stupid, build some schools with it or a peace center. Why does tragety always = war. Stupid egotistical show of stupidity. This country fucking sucks.
WTC steel collapsed like a house of cards. Here's hoping Republican right-wing rewriting of history misplaced bravado hasn't jinxed the U.S. Navy.
I agree. Build the peace center in Helmand Province or Waziristan.
Hey Reflect, why dont you packk your ass up and head for Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia where you'll love it and then you can say this country is great.