USS New York Is Christened
It's a living, fighting monument to the dead of 9/11.
The USS New York, constructed of steel from the World Trade Center site, was christened in a New Orleans ceremony.
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AVONDALE, La. (AP) - February 29, 2008
AVONDALE, La. (AP) - February 29, 2008
Standing before the massive USS New York, Jennifer Adams seemed moved by the spirits of the 2,750 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the World Trade Center.
"Our angels will watch over the men and women serving on this ship so the events of Sept. 11 will never happen again," said Adams, who co-founded an association of family members and friends of 2,974 people who died when terrorist-hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers in lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, and of survivors, recovery workers and volunteers.
The New York, an amphibious assault ship built for the Navy and incorporating steel recovered from the collapsed World Trade Center, will be christened Saturday at the New Orleans-area shipyard where it endured Hurricane Katrina.
The vessel was built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. It is the fifth in the LPD San Antonio class of ships designed to carry Marines into assault operations.
"Our angels will watch over the men and women serving on this ship so the events of Sept. 11 will never happen again," said Adams, who co-founded an association of family members and friends of 2,974 people who died when terrorist-hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers in lower Manhattan, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, and of survivors, recovery workers and volunteers.
The New York, an amphibious assault ship built for the Navy and incorporating steel recovered from the collapsed World Trade Center, will be christened Saturday at the New Orleans-area shipyard where it endured Hurricane Katrina.
The vessel was built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. It is the fifth in the LPD San Antonio class of ships designed to carry Marines into assault operations.
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