3 New US Navy Ships

BY THE TIME THE USS BARACK OBAMA IS REFURBISHED, SEQUESTER WILL BE OVER. 

Published 11/9/11 lib's labyrinth

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 From: Ever wonder what happened to all of the scrap steel
that was removed from the World Trade Center site?
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!

Published 2/14/07 ALT MSN Group

Web Page: The USS New York!