winstonwolfe: 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 Beautiful.

winstonwolfe:

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

Beautiful.

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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.
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    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....
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  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. instantplasticmaybe reblogged this from jhnbrssndn and added:
    machine made from 9/11 rubble
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    This is seriously fucked up.
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    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...
  17. minusmanhattan reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    Wait a second, we made a WARSHIP out of the WTC?! Are you fucking kidding me?
  18. ericmortensen reblogged this from lizlet and added:
    Why settle for a metaphor for the endless cycle of violence, when you can have a literal representation?
  19. lizlet reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    In addendum to this, I personally find the concept of making a warship out of the WTC both morbid and disturbing. Not to...
  20. section9 reblogged this from bowlingalleylawyer and added:
    Let it slide BAL. Ignorance might be bliss to the individual, but we just have to accept that some people’s ignorance is...
  21. bowlingalleylawyer reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    we don’t have universal health care because we have a Navy? are we really whining about that now? that’s where you want...
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    While I disagree on the causality (and have my own personal opinions on the overall subject matter)
  24. un reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    cool with me. Kind of a mega re-cycle program; sets a great example. But were it up to me, my response to 911 would have...
  25. mikehudack reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    Really? We don’t...care because we build amphibious assault ships? I don’t think that’s...
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    still a whole in the ground.
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    the stealth features on this ship make it look weird, but it a good way
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