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USS New York Made From 9/11 Scrap
by joellerose | May 7, 2007 at 12:31 pm | 5299 views | 10 comments | 39 recommendations
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" answers.com
May 7, 2007 at 12:31 pm by joellerose, 5299 views, 10 comments
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at 13:07 on May 7th, 2007
joellerose, nice item.
Using the 24 tons of steel from the WTC reminds me of the McCormick Tribune Tower in Chicago, the original home of the Chicago Tribune. Colonel Robert McCormick wanted the new tower to bring in relics from the 4 corners of the globe, symbolizing the reach of his growing news empire.
This is from the Wikipedia article of the building:
"Stones included in the wall are from such sites as the Trondheim Cathedral, Taj Mahal, the Parthenon, the Great Pyramid, The Alamo, Notre-Dame, Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb, the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall among others. "
at 17:31 on May 7th, 2007
I stand and salute.
at 08:35 on May 8th, 2007
joellerose, I like this story. It's good stuff. It's inspiring to know that we reused parts of devastation to bring to life something we hope to use to do much good.
at 10:25 on May 8th, 2007
What an Ironic Twist ... to think that a Ship of War may indeed carry the souls of all those Innocent Victims of The 9/11 Terror Attacks within its very Huge Frame, and what Poetic Justice that such a leathel Weapon should be used in the name of Peace !.
This Story made me think what a cruel and twisted World we live in.
It seems such a shame that it takes an act of War to create such a Beautiful looking Ship.
Great Story.
at 11:48 on May 8th, 2007
joellerose, thanks. There is so much power in places and buildings, and so much energy, too. My university campus has a building made entirely out of recycled materials from a building that was destroyed, and there's this feeling in it of depth...an impression of people who'd been there before. Haunting. Great stuff.
at 19:34 on May 8th, 2007
proficio iterum audaciter nullus eximo
at 11:02 on May 10th, 2007
joellerose, I like this story. It's good stuff.
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Nicole Billardat 15:16 on May 10th, 2007
Thank you so much for this story... it's done for me what I wish all news stories would do: make me think of all the things that are not only revealed, but are and will be effected by the subject matter.
The memories and spirits of the WTC victims are being held up and honored; the spirit of a country and those of people around the world are bolstered by this simple act of remembering. BUT, to Carlos62's point, what is the real message behind using this material to build a machine of war that will bring further deaths and war and unsolicited 'liberation' and to (for all intents and purposes) 'get back at 'em'... which may have been the start of all this in the first place.
I'm all for using the financial and political power for the good of society, ANY society, but we're all just a little more cautious these days about how quickly we judge Western involvement as 'just', and how it may continue to effect life on our own turf.
Thank you for providing the thought provoking images.
at 06:49 on May 11th, 2007
Fascinating; an allegory for so many things, some of them contradictory. That's what makes this such a great story.
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Big M (not verified)at 06:40 on July 31st, 2008
The previous commenters are pretty much typical brain-dead members of Boobus Americanus. Why in hell is it the steel in that ship, or any of the others mentioned, has never been forensically tested to see what compromised it?
If there's anybody with a brain out there, who wants to know what this really means, read this: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1074.shtml
As to the two idiots named in the article, as to their "reverence" and the like, I'm about to cough up my bootheels.