My Last $20 and USS New York
Blog Prompt: Tell five things you would buy with your last $20 and why.
Since I am all about food, it would probably be a really good cheeseburger and fries and a fountain Diet Coke. I would also buy a couple of candy bars made with dark chocolate.
That would be my 5 things I would buy. Yes, I am pitiful……hehehe……..but happy!!
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I love this story and since I have Navy blood in my body, I thought I would pass it on to you.
USS New York was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center . It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship’s bow
section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, ‘those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,’ recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. ‘It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.’
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the ‘hair on my neck stood up.’ ‘It had a big meaning to it for all of us,’ he said. ‘They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.’
The ship’s motto? ‘Never Forget’
My dad was USNA class of ‘61. Love that story. POwerful!
My last $20…girl I would so buy a purse or shoes! LOL! On sale, of course!