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With a year to go before it even touches the water, the Navy's amphibious assault ship USS New York has already made history - twice. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center, and it survived Hurricane Katrina.
That combination of disasters gives the ship a unique standing among the 500 or so Avondale, La., shipyard workers building it, said Tony Quaglino, a crane superintendent who postponed retirement to have a hand in the New York's construction. "I think Katrina made us more aware of the tragedy in New York," said the 66-year-old Quaglino. "One was manmade, one was natural, but they're both a common bond."
The 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, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage and workers were back at the yard near New Orleans two weeks after the storm.
The ship led many of the yard's thousands of workers to return to the job even though hundreds lost their homes, Quaglino and others said.
Northrop Grumman employed 6,500 at Avondale before Katrina. Today, roughly 5,500 are back, working on the New York and three other vessels. More than 200 employees who lost their homes to Katrina are living at the shipyard, some on a Navy barge and others in bunk-style housing.
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Fake would be my guess.
Obviously it's fake. Your article says it has a year to go before it even touches the water...
Not only that it just looks fake.
Let me clarify. I believe the ship is real and the article is true. But the picture is fake.
the picture is a painting of what the ship will look like from back in 2003 when the idea was started... is that enough to make you believe it?
Ya, its pure Wag the Dog shit.
Don't get it twisted.
but do turn on America's got talent, you are free America, you are Free
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