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According to the Times, The USS New York will be one of the first amphibious assault ships built by Northrop Grumman for the Pentagon. It will be able to deploy 700 marines onto coastline without the need of a traditional port. The New York will cost one billion dollars and is slated to join the US Navy in 2007.

By now you’re probably denying the inevitable truth about why this ship has been named the New York. The name is most certainly in reference to the September 11th attack, and it’s construction most certainly involves over twenty tons of steel from the remains of the World Trade Center.

the New York was half-completed when Katrina suplexed the shipyard where it is being constructed. While the ship came out unscathed many of the workers on the project, some of whom deferred retirement to work on it, are now living in a shanty town at the shipyard.

I suppose if the government had taken a few months to think, then perhaps after Katrina had done its damage the steel from the World Trade Center could’ve been used to help rebuild New Orleans.

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