The Freedom Rock is Really Good Stuff!

2010-09-28T02:57:00.000-07:00

Really Good Stuff - USS New York

2009-09-22T12:43:00.000-07:00

For the very first post of my "Really Good Stuff" blog, I looked for something very special. Something that every man, woman and child in America could look at and say to themselves ... this is really good stuff.

We just passed the 8th anniversary of the world trade center attack. Will any of us forget September 11, 2001. I know that I will always remember watching the morning news and then sitting there for a whole day watching the unbelievable happen to our country.

So, it is only fitting that a post of the Commissioning of the USS New York set the tone ...

The Commissioning of USS New York will take place on November 7th, 2009 at the Intrepid Museum at 46th St & 12th Ave, New York City, New York, USA.

Finally, some of what we lost returns USS New York, LPD-21, will parade into New York Harbor on Monday, November 2nd of 2009 for what will undoubtedly be the Commissioning event of the century. No other ship in world history carries the sentiment and import this ship possesses. In her bow is 24 tons of World Trade Center Steel.

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.

USS New York

Notice the two twin towers on top.

Here SHE is, the USS New York, made from the World Trade Center !

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'