Navy ship built with World Trade Center steel goes into service

By The Associated Press

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009

Updated: Sunday, November 8, 2009

(AP Photo/US Navy - Dan Meaney)

This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the amphibious transport dock ship USS New York during commissioning ceremonies in New York Saturday Nov. 6, 2009. The ship has 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers forged into her bow. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. New York is the sixth U.S. Navy ship named for the state and will be homeported in Norfolk, Va.

NEW YORK (AP) The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

“No matter how many times you attack us, we always come back,“ Secretary of the Navy Ray
Mabus said at the assault ship‘s commissioning. “America always comes back. That‘s what this ship represents.“

He spoke on a Manhattan pier where hundreds of Navy officers and sailors joined first responders and families of Sept. 11 victims.

“I hereby place the USS New York in commission,“ Mabus announced.

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Bat Guano

Mon Nov 9 2009 01:05

I would hate to be a sailor that was not from New York serving on the new USS New York assault ship. That would amount to "...above and beyond the call of duty!"

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