USS New York --- made from the World Trade Center!!

The USS New York  was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.  As you scroll down, notice the twin towers on top.

Artist's rendition below

(article copied and pasted from an email, and Associated Press)

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.

Later, ships in the class will include  USS Arlington, the location of the Pentagon also struck by a hijacked plane on September 11, and USS Somerset, named for the Pennsylvania county where United Flight 93 crashed afer its passengers fought off hijackers apparently planning to attack another Washington target.

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'

USS New York

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