From Tower to Warship…
Cycling through BBC today, I found this article: “US christens ‘9/11 steel’ warship“. The article covers the final destination of the salvaged steel from the World Trade Center:
The bow contains 7.5 tonnes of steel taken from Ground Zero.
It also bore a shield with two bars to symbolise the towers and a banner with the slogan Never Forget.
At first I thought, “Well, glad they re-used it positively,” but then the idea of turning the remains of such a symbolic American tragedy into a WARship, kind of hit me as strange. Is this something to be proud of? That “Never Forget” will grace the fronts of American battleships? Maybe the steel should have been salvaged for use in a school, or a hospital, or…
March 5, 2008 at 12:05 am
Sooo I was mistakenly under the impression that “Is Good News” was about tracking bizarre LOLcats sightings, and imagined that the NYTimes had printed an article entitled “US Christians ‘9/11′ Steal Warship” in LOLcats lingo. I suppose the radical 9/11 Christian group would be invoking God inappropriately if they thought they could get away with stealing a U.S. warship.
Oh Ha! I’m in ur blogs messin wif ur entries!