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USS NEW YORK
MADE WITH STEEL FROM THE WTC |
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
World Trade Center.
USS New York is about 45 percent complete and should be ready for launch
in mid 2007. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the
Gulf Coast last summer but the 684 foot vessel escaped serious damage,
and workers were back at the yard near New Orleans two weeks after the
storm.
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.
"It would be fitting if the first mission this ship would go on is to
make sure that 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 New York
is coming right through the front door and we want them to know that."
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite,
Louisiana 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."
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when 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."
The ship's motto?- "Never Forget |
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The Port Authority Pipe Band
is currently looking for anyone who may be interested to learn how
to play either the bagpipes or the drums. You don't have to be able to
read music all that is asked is to put some time into practicing and
before you know it you will be marching up the Avenue with the band.
If you are
interested or just want to see what it is all about stop by and talk to
us. Practice is every Wednesday night around 7 pm on the 7th floor in
the PATH tower in Jersey City, NJ. There is parking and you will get a
pass to park. Also if you have any questions you can contact the
following people:
Contact Scott
Czarkowski
psc1996@optonline.net
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2006 schedule can be viewed at:
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Port Authority to build the new WTC Memorial
July 06, 2006
Crain's New York Business
The owner of the World Trade Center site is taking
over construction of the Sept. 11 memorial, following a redesign that
trimmed costs in half.
(AP) — The owner of the World Trade Center site is
taking over construction of the Sept. 11 memorial, following
recommendations that the government agency would help trim the
memorial's spiraling costs by taking control.
The boards of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the
World Trade Center Memorial Foundation voted Thursday to have the Port
Authority build the memorial.
Officials have already approved a new, less-expensive version of the
“Reflecting Absence” design after contractors estimated in May it would
cost close to $1 billion.
Preliminary memorial construction began in March and stopped two months
later when cost estimates came out. The nonprofit memorial foundation
suspended private fundraising and its president quit, while Gov. George
Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed a developer to cut costs.
The new design for the square pools with cascading waterfalls set above
the twin towers' footprints cuts underground space around the pools,
creates one entrance to three separate memorial facilities and raises
the names of the 2,979 people killed in the 2001 attacks and in the 1993
trade center bombing to street level.
The latest estimate to build the memorial is $510 million, not including
more than $100 million to prepare the site for construction.
The Port Authority has said it would cover those costs. About $380
million has been pledged to build the memorial, $250 million of it from
a state development agency.
The nonprofit memorial foundation had been in charge of building the
memorial, as well as fundraising and, eventually, operating it.
Critics of the foundation had said it should focus on fundraising
instead of design and construction issues. Later Thursday, the
foundation was to formally launch a national advertising campaign to
spur interest in the memorial.
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papd
columbia association
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for meeting info
LA BELLA VITA
106-09 Rockaway Tpk
Ozone Park, NY
Call for Details
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EMERALD SOCIETY
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Hours
KATIE DALY'S
5707
MERRICK ROAD
MASSAPEQUA, NY
516-798-8410
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papd
STEUBEN ASSOCIATION
General
Membership Meeting
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PLATTDEUTSCHE PARK RESTAURANT
1132 HEMPSTEAD TPK
FRANKLIN SQUARE, NY
516-351-3131
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DETECTIVE HAS THE RIGHT CUFF
By PHILIP MESSING
May 18, 2006 -- A Port Authority detective who
carried his slain colleague's handcuffs all
the way to Afghanistan so he could personally slap them
on terrorists' wrists will get his
department's highest honor today for taking the war on
terror from Ground Zero...READ
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Poem
Written by Debbi Dito
Wife of
Mike Dito (Retired)
My mind
wanders back, to that September 10th
I went to sleep happy, safe and content
It was my little Dog's birthday
to be exact his seventh
How could I know what lie ahead
On that September 11th
For it was on that mournful day
that our Twin Giants fell...
They could not withstand the fiery hell!
I remember staring at the T.V.
my eyes in disbelief
I cried out in rage
my heart filling with grief
What evil could possess
these so called human beings
How could they, why would they
do such a thing!
From the day it all happened
I still can't fathom why
They would live their lives conspiring
to cause Americans to die....
And now I think of Kathy, Vernon, Clinton and George
who senselessly perished
From the unthinkable scourge
With them, three thousand souls entered Heaven, I pray
While Satan welcomed murderers, that same tragic day
Once again with sadness, I think back and lament
trying to imagine how their last minutes were spent
Was there time to be frightened?
Did they ever think twice?
I'd say "no", not our Heroes
who made the ultimate sacrifice....
.... Five years now have passed
but not a day goes by
That my mind does not see
the fire in the sky
And yet I also see a vision------
Rising majestically toward the Heavens
Those glorious Twin Towers
in our skyline once again
....... Yes my mind wanders back
to that September 10th
I went to sleep happy, safe, and content.....
Debbie Dito |
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