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    Here SHE is, The USS New York

    Here SHE is, The USS New York (LPD 21), made from the World Trade Center!

    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.'
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    Re: Here SHE is, The USS New York

    Quote Originally Posted by Iceaxe
    designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists.
    Sounds prejudice. I hope it doesn't offend any of those terrorists too bad.

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    The New York

    According to Snopes, the story is true, but the ship isn't commissioned yet, but will be by about 2009...

    In December 2006, the following image began to circulate with this e-mail in place of the artist's rendition displayed above, although it is not a photograph of the USS New York but rather the recently-commissioned USS San Antonio.

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    Right back at them

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    Put that in yer hooka and smoke it, terrorists!
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