While this isn’t the clearest video or the most impressive of a USN vessel, it is damn inspirational. The video above shows the USS New York, the fifth San-Antonio class transport, sailing up the Hudson River. For those that haven’t yet heard, the USS New York(LPD-21) was built using seven and a half tons of salvaged steel from the World Trade Center towers. The steel was used to make the “stem bar” of the ship, part of the bow. The vessel, and the stem bar in particular, were reportedly treated with “reverence usually accorded to religious relics”, gently touching it as they walked by. Indeed, one worker delayed his retirement after 40 years’ work to be part of the project.
It is moments like these that make me proud to be an American. Queue the National Anthem
