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New Military Vessel
USS New York With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navy's amphibious assault ship
USS New York has already made history. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center USS New York is
about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch in mid-2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the Gulf
Coast last summer, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back at the yard near New Orleans two
weeks after the storm. 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. "It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make sure that bin Laden is taken
out, his terrorist organization is taken out," said Glenn Clement, a paint foreman. "He came in through the back door and
knocked our towers down and (the New York ) is coming right through the front door, and we want them to know that." 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'
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Subject: Re: It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the
World Trade Center.
We have the honor of saying that the steel for the new tower will come from right here in Lynchburg,
Virginia where the steel for the twin towers came from, just a different company.
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Are you going to the new World Trade Center movie?
What I've been hearing, Oliver Stone did a good job.
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FOR YEARS,
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS WARNED THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
MONEY IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS FOR OUR NATION'S BABY-BOOMERS.
NOW THE UNITED STATES SENATE HAS GRANTED SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
TO ILLEGAL ALIENS.
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SO CONGRESS DEVELOPED A PLAN TO CUT DISABLED VETERANS SOCIAL
SECURITY DISABILITY.
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