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Here SHE is, the USS New York
Email received today and ABC News Story ^
| 02/07/2007
| Me
Posted on 02/07/2007 12:57:28 PM PST by b4its2late
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"
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: letsroll; neverforget; neverforgive; september12era; steel; usn; ussnewyork; wtcsteel
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To: b4its2late
You're a "Grand Old Flag"! May the wind always be at your back!
To: b4its2late
Beautiful.
Now go kick the crap out of the terrorists!
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:00:16 PM PST
by
The Blitherer
(Duncan Hunter for President '08!)
To: b4its2late
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:00:40 PM PST
by
CCGuy
(USAF (Ret.))
To: b4its2late
May she help take down many terrorists in her lifetime.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:00:47 PM PST
by
wastedyears
( "Gun control is hitting your target accurately." - Richard Marcinko)
To: b4its2late
Reminds me of when I was in Kandahar, Afghanistan and we raised the flag from WTC over the Kandahar airport.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:01:38 PM PST
by
CCGuy
(USAF (Ret.))
To: b4its2late
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:02:47 PM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
To: b4its2late
Here's an actual photograph (that other image looks like a CGI rendering). She's still under construction.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:03:25 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: b4its2late
One of these plus one of the new nuclear subs outfitted as a seal covert operating platform would be a threat to be reckoned with..
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:05:11 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: ArrogantBustard
Here's an actual photograph (that other image looks like a CGI rendering).According to Snopes, the other image is of the USS San Antonio.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:05:35 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: ArrogantBustard
Darn! I thought it was it!
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:05:59 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: b4its2late
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:06:47 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
To: ArrogantBustard
When it does sail I hope it kicks some arse!
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:07:00 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
To: b4its2late
Amite , LA That's where I live. Hard to believe our sleepy little town's foundry had the honor of this.
To: ArrogantBustard; b4its2late
To: ArrogantBustard
What's that .... thing sticking out? Perhaps it's part of the offensive dildonics suite.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:08:24 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: b4its2late
Fair winds and following seas...
Although, I'm sure she'll see her share of the rough stuff
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:09:23 PM PST
by
fod
(We are dancing on a volcano)
To: b4its2late
Of course, after we impeach W & Cheney...
My 1st Presidential act will be to have it decommissioned and sunk at a San Francisco pier to become the landfill for a park for homeless gay immigrants who shall not be illegal from not on...
Don't laugh...
She and the Democtats are capable of it!
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:09:39 PM PST
by
Bender2
(The Democrats' Party Line is only good in Hell where it works!)
To: b4its2late
...did they forget to stick some guns on there?
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:10:15 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: r9etb
That 'thing' actually permits a ship to move faster and more smoothly through the water.
It's also probably jammed with sonar gear.
L
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:10:28 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
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