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With pride, sadness USS New York comes 'to life'
 Shortly after noon Saturday, a command rang out at Pier 86 in Manhattan: "Bring the ship to life."With that, crew members in dress blues ran to stand at attention at the rails, radar antennas on the America's newest warship began to turn, black smoke poured from three funnels, sirens rang and the horn blared. And the USS New York - docked across the water at Pier 88 - became part of the active U.S. Navy fleet. It was a ceremony evoking emotion, pride and patriotism and full of references to Sept. 11 - hardly surprising given that the 684-foot amphibious assault vessel's bow incorporates 7.5 tons of the steel skeletons of the World Trade Center towers. Posted by: Steve White 2009-11-08 |
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