warship built out of twin towers wreckage

London Times Online ^ | May 23, 2006 | Tom Baldwin

[RDTF]

In a shipyard in New Orleans, survivors of one disaster are building a monument to another.

IN A city still emerging from the floods of Hurricane Katrina, a ship has begun to rise from the ashes of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Bringing together America’s two great calamities of the 21st century, the USS New York is being built in New Orleans with 24 tonnes of steel taken from the collapsed World Trade Centre. One worker, Tony Quaglino, said: “I was going to go in October 2004 after 40 years here, but I put it off when I found out I could be working on New York. This is sacred and it makes me very proud.” Glen Clement, a paint superintendent, said: “Nobody passes by that bow section without knocking on it. Everybody knows what it is made from and what it’s about.”

The ship is being built by Northrop Grumman on the banks of the Mississippi. It should be ready to join the US Navy in 2007.

There is no shortage of scrap metal in New Orleans these days, but the girders taken from Ground Zero have been treated with a reverence usually accorded to religious relics. After a brief ceremony in 2003, about seven tonnes of steel were melted down and poured into a cast to make the bow section of the ship’s hull.

[reagan_fanatic]

“Nobody passes by that bow section without knocking on it. Everybody knows what it is made from and what it’s about.”

There are still some who understand what we're really fighting for.

[snippy_about_it]

Very cool.

[FortWorthPatriot]

Hmmm. Wonder why we had to read this in the London Times?

[SAMWolf]

Cool!!! Thanks for the ping!!

[Samwise]

Thanks for the ping!

Bookmark for Hubby.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Freudian?

[gas0linealley]

This is good news! Right after 9-11 I sent a request to President Bush to do this very thing.

"Melt down our ruined plowshares and turn them into spears".

[freema]

Wow.

There is a piece of WTC beam that sits at the entrance to Camp Geiger, Jacksonville, NC, where all new Marines (save Infantry) learn their prospective jobs, at the Beurit Memorial. It was presented to the Marines by the FDNY in solidarity.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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The Man Who Predicted 9/11,

World Trade Center Tower II 1st Vice President for Morgan Stanley Brokerage House's Security, RICK RESCORLA's bronze...

'Follow Me' Statue

...was joyfully unveiled by his widow SUSAN at Ft. Benning GA on April 1st, 2006...

http://www.RickRescorla.com
(See: 'The Statue' Pictures)

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
(The RICK RESCORLA Thread)


...just for the LOVE of it.

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[Salem]

This is truly poignant. This hales back to memories of the battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48). Damaged and sunk at Pearl Harbor, she was raised, refurbished, and after serving well in the Pacific war, ended up in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender. What ytuly delicious irony! May the USS New York and all who serve on her have the same history!

It's great being an American!  

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[sageb1]

"Melt down our ruined plowshares and turn them into spears".

That goes on my list of best tagline-worthy quotes ever.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Amen, Salem!

[Guard Dog]

This will be the fifth USS New York. The fourth ship to bear this name was laid down ... 11 Sep 1911.

OhMyGod thats true. Sorry I did not believe you, had to look that up. What a wild coincidence.

[IronJack]

Reminds me of the movie The Patriot, when Mel Gibson's character melts down the last of his sons' toy soldiers and casts it into the ball that he uses to shoot the evil Redcoat colonel.

What goes around comes around.