USS New York It wasbuilt with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions thatinclude special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore byhelicopters and assault craft.. 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 moldson Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with totalreverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was aspiritual moment for everybody there." Ju nior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when thetrade 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 tobe back." The ship's motto? - 'Never Forget'
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