Here is a pile on the grounds at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD). Ouur group was very quiet when look at, and walking around, these girders. 
Posted on 05/23/2006 8:47:05 AM PDT by 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.
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This act is very touching. I pray for a special blessing on this ship and all who travel within her.
I hope it brings peace where we need and delivers death and destruction to those who deserve it.
There was a girder from one of the Towers on display at our County Fair last year....I noticed that some rust flecks from it were on the pavement below, so I scooped one up (small - maybe 1/4 x 1/4 inch) and brought it home, laminated, labeled and framed it.
"May the Lord fill our sails with fair wind, support our hulls in inviting seas, guide our hands upon the tiller toward pleasant places and bring us home, O Lord, to a safe and loving harbor."
from article:
FORCE OF LIBERTY
USS New York, USS Arlington and USS Somerset will be part of a nine-vessel fleet of new amphibious transport ships
Length: 208.5m (684ft) — more than twice as long as the Statue of Liberty
Beam: 31.9m (105ft); weight: 24,900 tonnes; speed: 22 knots
Equipment: helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, missile launchers
Crew: more than 1,000, comprising 361 ship’s company plus 699 marines
I was in Mobile, Alabama once and they were stripping paint off of an sr-71, so I grabbed a piece of the rubberized coating.
I HOPE THIS SHIP FIRES THE MISSILE THAT TAKES OUT OBL OR THAT PERSIAN RUGRAT......
Lets see: # 1) American Patriotism is bad
There is a good special on TV about this ship and her construction. It might have been the History Channel?, Modern Marvels?
This will be the fifth USS New York. The fourth ship to bear this name was laid down ... 11 Sep 1911.
Not so much, American Patriotism, but any reminders of 9-11 are to be avoided at all times. Must not stir the people's minds up with reminders that we are actually in a war for our very existence. Notice that, unless there is something bad happening in Afghanistan it is pretty much ignored. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq is the MSM's sole target. Any connection to 9-11 is dismissed and the news must be bad at all times...........
Other than that, dang they are doing a fine job of journalism!
Here is a pile on the grounds at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD). Ouur group was very quiet when look at, and walking around, these girders.
Although this is great, only the nose of the ship is made of Sept. the 11th steel! I saw the episode on THC!
I hope it reaks havoc on ragheads everywhere!
Sail this gal right into the Persian Gulf and dare anyone to even paint it with radar...Hey Osama...this puppy will be carrying Marines and supplies to your boys...
I'd like to see a huge painted sign of each side, on the hull, saying, "Crash this MF?"
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