U.S.S. New York

AFDAD2010
Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:55:34 +0000

This was going around the email circuit at the Air Force Academy. Probably not news to most of you on this board, but I thought it was interesting that it was getting such positive reaction from the USAFA. It seems to be inspriational for anyone who is serving…

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’