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09-09-06, 08:37 AM
September 07, 2006
San Antonio to sail by Ground Zero on Sep. 11
By William H. McMichael
Staff writer
NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, Va. — With sailors and Marines manning the rails, the Navy’s newest amphibious transport dock ship will sail past Manhattan’s Ground Zero site on Sept. 11 to help commemorate the five-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Navy’s 2nd Fleet announced Thursday.
The San Antonio will leave its home port of Norfolk Naval Station on Friday and pull into New York harbor on Monday. It’s scheduled to pass by Ground Zero at approximately 8:30 a.m.
After docking, the crew will spend the next several days conducting ship tours for inner-city children and performing volunteer work, according to Lt. Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, the Navy’s spokeswoman in New York City. The latter will include a Tuesday collaboration with Lift Up America, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing food and other needs to the less fortunate.
The San Antonio will be representing a still-under-construction relative: the New York, the fifth ship in the San Antonio class. The New York is being built in part with 24 tons of steel recovered from the fallen World Trade Center buildings, 2nd Fleet said.
Ellie
San Antonio to sail by Ground Zero on Sep. 11
By William H. McMichael
Staff writer
NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, Va. — With sailors and Marines manning the rails, the Navy’s newest amphibious transport dock ship will sail past Manhattan’s Ground Zero site on Sept. 11 to help commemorate the five-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Navy’s 2nd Fleet announced Thursday.
The San Antonio will leave its home port of Norfolk Naval Station on Friday and pull into New York harbor on Monday. It’s scheduled to pass by Ground Zero at approximately 8:30 a.m.
After docking, the crew will spend the next several days conducting ship tours for inner-city children and performing volunteer work, according to Lt. Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, the Navy’s spokeswoman in New York City. The latter will include a Tuesday collaboration with Lift Up America, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing food and other needs to the less fortunate.
The San Antonio will be representing a still-under-construction relative: the New York, the fifth ship in the San Antonio class. The New York is being built in part with 24 tons of steel recovered from the fallen World Trade Center buildings, 2nd Fleet said.
Ellie