Crane used at 9/11 crash site melted for ship

[unhappycamper]

Crane used at 9/11 crash site melted for ship
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jun 4, 2008 6:25:57 EDT

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — A crane used in coal mining at the southwestern Pennsylvania site where United Flight 93 crashed will be melted down and used to build a Navy ship.

The ship will be called the USS Somerset after the county where the flight hijacked by terrorists crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Twenty-two tons of steel from the dragline crane have been taken from the site. The steel will be melted down then sent to Mississippi, where the ship is being built by Northrop Grumman. The ship is expected to be built by 2012.

Northrop Grumman is also using more than 21 tons of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York to build what will become the USS New York.


Article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/06/ap_flight93_060308/



uhc comment: According to wikipedia, the USS New York was christened on 3.1.2008 --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28LPD-21%29



Christening of PCU New York on March 1, 2008

This one has me scratching my head.

[pocoloco]

1. By the way, were any bodies ever found at that crash site?

Just curious.

[liberal N proud]

2. Thus making the ship "sacred"

[MindPilot]

3. I hate the idea of using steel from a tragedy in a Navy ship

To me it's more than a little ghoulish in same sense as keeping you dead mother in the attic. Memorializing those who died by hammering the remains into an instrument of war is not a remembrance, it is just plain creepy.

[liberal N proud]

4. But it makes it "Special"

And we will be required to "remember" the day for generations to come.
:mad:


Don't you just love America sometimes.