World Trade Center scrap to be used in USS New York

Associated Press, via boston.com ^ | 12/25/2002 | Joel Stashenko, Associated Press

[SauronOfMordor]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be used to build the Navy's USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

The scrap steel will be extricated from the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island on Friday and trucked south to a Northrop Grumman shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Northrop Grumman will start building the USS New York in Pascagoula in the middle of next year.

[SauronOfMordor]

Hey, Islamofascists, the WTC is coming for you, REAL SOON.

[VOA]

Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be used to build
the Navy's USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished
in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

Just personal opinion...I think it should be named the
USS Twin Towers.

[PhilDragoo]

What goes around, comes around.

Karma returns across miles of trackless waste.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead reiterated in the American guarantee:

Payback's a bitch.

[Capriole]

What perfect justice. We are beating our ploughshares into swords.

[martin_fierro]

COMETH THE SMACKDOWN!

[Pern]

I agree, naming a ship after New York is just another morale booster for the people of the city. Not that that is a bad thing, of course. I think it should be named the USS Shanksville, after the brave people who actually fought their hijackers/murderers. Seems fitting, a fighting ship to honor a fighting group of people.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

LPD-17 San Antonio Class

[XRdsRev]

I don't think anyone on that doomed airliner was actually from Shanksville. If I remember correctly, they were mostly from New York, New Jersey and California. The flight originated from Newark (NJ) International Airport.

Shankville is a nice place with great people but it's only claim to fame on Sept 11 was that a jetliner fell from the sky onto a farm there.

I know Todd Beamer lived in the little town of Cranbury New Jersey.

Regardless of the name of the ship, I hope it and its crew get the chance to open a big ole can of whoop a*s on the people who attacked us, those who are thinking of attacking us or those who are supporting our enemies.

[AngrySpud]

"We are beating our ploughshares into swords."

What a perfect metaphor. You get my vote for "Quote of the Year"!

[maxwellp]

Does the name of a ship have to have a "name". If not, I'd suggest the name "USS 9/11". This would encompass everyone who died and fought back that day - the innocent civilians, the firemen, policemen and those who fought back on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania (and those that died in the Pentagon).

[Pern]

USS 9/11

Very, VERY good idea.

[duckbutt]

I'm proud to say I work for Northrop Grumman - - go guys! Get that thing seaworthy in record time!!

[Fiddlstix]

Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be used to build the Navy's USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

Works for me.

[Bob]

Does the name of a ship have to have a "name". If not, I'd suggest the name "USS 9/11".

I like "USS New York" as its name. Maybe it could be assigned a hull number of 911.

[Jonah Hex]

The U.S. Army has a tugboat named ENDURING FREEDOM at Fort Eustis. It's hull number is 911.

[red-dawg]

LPD's are named after cities like the USS Denver. I don't see anything wrong with the USS New York City.

[SAMWolf]

Payback's coming.

[Bob]

LPD's are named after cities like the USS Denver. I don't see anything wrong with the USS New York City.

I didn't know the naming convention for LPD's. (Never was in the gator Navy, just an ol' tin can sailor here.)

LPD-911, USS New York City sounds like a fine idea to me.

[Pippin]

I saw that on FOX news this evening.

I think it's cool!