World Trade Centre steel recycled to build war ship

SHOOT: I'm all for recycling, but I can think of a better use for all that steel than military use. It's also recycling violence or certainly the pursuit of it, of war. Perhaps they could have used that steel instead to build bridges, and railways or trains.

The ship is technically known as a San Antonio-class amphibious dock vessel.

clipped from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a rifle volley salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the public gathered Monday at a waterfront viewing area, where they could see the crew standing at attention along the deck of the battleship gray vessel. The big ship paused. Then the shots were fired, with a cracking sound, in three bursts. The bow of the $1 billion ship, built in Louisiana, contains about 7.5 tons of steel from the fallen towers. "It's a transformation ... from something really twisted and ugly," said Rosaleen Tallon, who lost her firefighter brother, Sean, on 9/11. "I'm proud that our military is using that steel." "We have to remember. It's a way to honor them," she said.