Off Record but Important to All Americans – USS New York Commissioned
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USS NEW YORK (LPD-21) arrived in New York harbor on Monday, Nov. 2. She is one of three new amphibious assault ships named after places in three states where more than 3,000 people were murdered in the infamous terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. (View Official Website)
Still in construction are the other two: the soon-to-be USS ARLINGTON (LPD-24) named for the Virginia county in which the Pentagon is located, and the USS SOMERSET (LPD-25) named for the Pennsylvania county where American Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field.
All three ships will go to sea with steel in their bows that was salvaged and re-formed from all three terrorist attack sites: LPD-24′s from the Pentagon building’s structural girders, LPD-25′s from the meltdown of a crane used to excavate the airliner wreckage. other
She officially became a ship of the United States Navy at a formal commissioning ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 7.
During the rest of her visit she will be berthed berthed at Pier 88, on Manhattan’s 12th Ave. at W. 48th St., until Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Posted on: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 3:19 pm 
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