SIXTEEN TONS PLUS MORE

And the Lord Thy God has Said:

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
(Holy Bible, New Testament, Book of Romans, Chapter 12, Verse 19, (Romans 12:19)

We as Inhabitants of the Wonderful Earth, have been fighting and suffering at the hand of each other for Millenniums....

On September 11, 2001.....Four American Commercial and Non Governmental Airline Jet Passenger Planes were High Jacked and Intentionally crashed with ALL the civilian passengers into Both Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon Complex in Washington D.C. and One High Jacking was thwarted but still crashed in a Field in SOMERSET, Pennsylvania, USA.

On March 1, 2008......Nearly 7 years after that Surprise Attack......We have taken 24 Tons of the Steel that was once the World Trade Center and Molded into the U.S.S. New York, LPD 21.....

All the Story and Specifications of this Victory Ship can be read at Wikipedia by search the name.....U.S.S. New York, LPD 21....

Vengeance is Mine....Says the Lord....

Here is a brief Excerpt....
USS New York (LPD-21)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
U.S. 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 Complete. Hurricane 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'
Career

Awarded:
25 November 2003
Laid down:
10 September 2004
Christened:
1 March 2008
Commissioned:
late 2009 (scheduled)
Motto:
Never Forget
General characteristics
Displacement:
24,900 tons full
Length:
208.5 m (684 ft) overall,201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam:
31.9 m (105 ft) extreme, 29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft:
7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion:
Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:
22 knots (41 km/h)
Boats and landingcraft carried:
Two LCACs (air cushion)or one LCU (conventional);14 EFVs
Capacity:
699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total
Complement:
28 officers, 333 enlisted
Armament:
Two 30 mm Bushmaster II, for surface threat defense;two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense.
Aircraft carried:
Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously.
United States Ship New York (LPD-21), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of New York. The ship is designed to deliver a fully-equipped battalion of 700 Marines.
Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England requesting that the Navy bestow the name USS New York on a surface warship involved in the War on Terror in honor of September 11's victims. In his letter, the Governor said he understood state names are currently reserved for submarines, but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved 28 August 2002.
Oddly enough, a previous holder of the name, USS New York (BB-34), had its keel laid on September 11, 1911, exactly 90 years to the day before the WTC was attacked.
Twenty-four tons of the steel used in its construction came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center actually preserved for posterity. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, Louisiana to cast the ship's bow section. It was poured into the molds on September 9, 2003. With seven tons melted down and cast to form the ship's "stem bar" — part of the ship's bow.[1] The shipyard workers reportedly treated it with "reverence usually accorded to religious relics", gently touching it as they walked by.[2]
On 9 September 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced that two of her sister ships will be named Arlington and Somerset, in commemoration of the places two of the other planes used in the attack came down: Somerset, Pennsylvania and Arlington, Virginia.
The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana in 2003.

May the U.S.S. New York, LPD-21, Be Victorious, and Forever Sail Above The Waves. In Jesus Name. Amen.

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