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The World Trade Center sailed into the city this morning. The USS New York, which has a bow built from 7.5 tons of Twin Towers steel, stopped near Ground Zero as a detail on board fired off a 21-gun salute. Families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks standing on the north cove then saluted the Navy&#8217;s newest warship as it continued up the Hudson. After the 21-gun salute, petty officers Mike Sullivan and Paul Bershers,who were on watch on the bow, started singing Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;New York State of Mind.&#8221; After the Ground Zero stop, the ship escorted by about two dozen tugboats and other vessels headed up the Hudson River toward the George Washington Bridge. After a U-turn there, it was to head south to Pier 88. An official commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Saturday. via NYP

The World Trade Center sailed into the city this morning.

The USS New York, which has a bow built from 7.5 tons of Twin Towers steel, stopped near Ground Zero as a detail on board fired off a 21-gun salute.

Families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks standing on the north cove then saluted the Navy’s newest warship as it continued up the Hudson.

After the 21-gun salute, petty officers Mike Sullivan and Paul Bershers,who were on watch on the bow, started singing Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind.”

After the Ground Zero stop, the ship escorted by about two dozen tugboats and other vessels headed up the Hudson River toward the George Washington Bridge. After a U-turn there, it was to head south to Pier 88. An official commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Saturday.


via NYP

Posted 2 years ago
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  1. hlrproject reblogged this from brainofg and added:
    We thought this was interesting and moving - and an inspiring use for the remains of the Trade Centers. Never Forget.
  2. hoerr reblogged this from soupsoup
  3. hyruleovertureisgone reblogged this from julieandrewsinthecockpit and added:
    bowfolk:clingtomymouth:jhnbrssndn:ericmortensen:
  4. squashedcomments reblogged this from jhnbrssndn and added:
    I’m for universal health-care and all, but that’s one sweet-ass amphibious assault ship. I may re-examine my priorities....
  5. julieandrewsinthecockpit reblogged this from girlytree
  6. caterpillarcowboy reblogged this from winstonwolfe and added:
    My roomie is flexing his brain muscles.
  7. winstonwolfe reblogged this from section9 and added:
    What section9 said.
  8. section9 reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I would argue it is a completely unfair comparison. Like comparing secondary education to the interstate highway system....
  9. hm3 reblogged this from jhnbrssndn and added:
    machine made from 9/11 rubble
  10. jhnbrssndn reblogged this from ericmortensen
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  13. writer-b reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    I’m not sure what having a Navy has to do with not having universal health care. I’d argue that we can and should have...