Another interesting amphibious friend

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<td>Fwd: Fw: You will appreciate this message</td></tr>
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<td>6/3/2006 9:05:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span id="q_10af652f9f568381_2"><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Thought you might find this interesting.</span>

Artists Rendering of the USS New York </span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">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 <st1lace w:st="on"><st1lacename w:st="on">World</st1lacename> <st1lacename w:st="on">Trade</st1lacename> <st1lacetype w:st="on">Center</st1lacetype></st1lace></span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><st1lace w:st="on"><st1lacetype w:st="on"></st1lacetype></st1lace></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">USS New York is about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch in mid 2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the <st1lacetype w:st="on">Gulf</st1lacetype> <st1lacetype w:st="on">Coast</st1lacetype> last summer but the 684 foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back at the yard near <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:city></st1lace> two weeks after the storm.</span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">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.</span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">"It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to make sure than 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.The <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1lace> is is coming right through the front door and we want them to know that."</span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Steel from the <st1lacename w:st="on">World</st1lacename> <st1lacename w:st="on">Trade</st1lacename> <st1lacetype w:st="on">Center</st1lacetype> was melted down in a foundry in <st1lace w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Amite</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state></st1lace> to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on September 9, 2003, Those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Captain Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for everybody there."</span></font></span>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that then 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."</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">The ship's motto?- <font size="4"><font face="Tempus Sans ITC"><font color="#000080">"<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Never Forget"</span></span></font></font></font></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o></o></span></font></font></blockquote>
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