Twin Towers wreckage turning up all over the place
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Aug 7, 2006, 01:21
And you thought all the 9/11 WTC wreckage was swept up in eight months and sent to be smelted in foreign countries or secret places in our own strange land, right? And that the rest of the rubble was buried in Fresh Kills (appropriate name), Staten Island. So did I. But now it turns out last remains of the Towers are being stored in an 80,000-square-foot hangar at JFK International Airport in New York. Ain’t that a kick in the head?
The previous fact comes from the fifth paragraph of an article Fragments of Twin Towers may return to Coatesville by Jennifer Miller at DailyLocal.com. It’s a story about Coatesville, Pennsylvania, wanting to get some WTC steel “trees” for the future National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum, to be built in the city’s Lukens National Historic District. The Graystone Society is the group propelling the museum project. Well, how nice.
Scot Huston, a “direct” descendant of the Luken family, president of the Graystone Society, and Gene DiOrio, Graystone Society vice president, traveled to that JFK hangar to meet with New York Port Authority officials about bringing some of the remnants back to Coatesville. That’s even sweeter.
But how about giving some steel “trees” to some 9-11 scientists and engineers? To see if the steel is still strong or if there is any evidence of explosives on them or to test their melting points. I mean since NYPA officials are accommodating these Coatesville folks, let’s remind them there is a 9-11 Truth Movement concerned with all these little details in little ole New York City, where the tragedy occurred. And this movement lives around the nation and the world as well.
So to me, further sharing of the “trees” for forensic research seems like a modest proposal, especially in light of some of the darker purposes for which the wreckage is being shared. Trust me. Nothing’s ever simple concerning 9-11.
Warship built out of Twin Towers Wreckage
Yes, you read correctly. This fact is from an article with the subhead’s title. Check the link and see the ship. It’s the greatest show on earth. This tale, which surfaced on May 22, 2006, from the London Times Online shows and tells us about The USS New York being built in New Orleans using some 24 tons of steel taken from the collapsed World Trade Centers.
In fact, “after a brief ceremony in 2003, about seven tons of steel were melted down and poured into a cast to make the bow section of the ship’s hull.” Are you waiting for the Empire-State building-like miniatures made of the Towers’ lost steel? That would be the final iron-y, wouldn’t it? Ah, but there’s more. And more. And more.
Like one shipyard worker, Tony Quaglino said: he “was going to go in October 2004 after 40 years here, but I put it off when I found out I could be working on New York. This is sacred and makes me very proud.” Glen Clement, a paint-superintendent said: “Nobody passes by that bow section without knocking on it. Everybody knows what it is made from and what it’s about.” Ah, but Glen, not everybody knows how the original steel got bent outa shape. May I suggest The 911 WTC Collapse: An Audio-Video Analysis. Really amazing stuff for all good Americans. It’s about what really happened. Please, check it out.
Returning to the ships, another site offers you a chance to play Anchors Away as you read about defense contractor Northrop Grumman being the builder with the reused bloody steel. Only they claim “the steel was to be shipped to Northrop’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.” It ain’t New Orleans. But it ain’t far. This site claims the 684-foot ship should be ready for service in 2007. It will be the fifth USS New York. The site’s copy reads:
“The brand new assault craft with a capability of carrying around 800 marines and equipment is to be named the USS New York, in tribute to the almost 2,800 people who died in the attacks of September 11 2001.
“ . . . The ship will have the motto ‘Never Forget’” which sounds more like the Holocaust imperative, a little Israeli influence? Maybe it could be called the USS Infamy for the day that lingers in the mind, when all of our defense systems crumbled like the Towers. But let us not obsess. Let us learn and act and win minds and hearts. The copy continues . . .
“The recycled steel from the Twin Towers, if it meets quality standards, will be used to form the ship's ‘stem bar.’ That is part of the ship's bow, where the vessel cuts the water.” I love it, the “if it meets quality standards.” It got blown and burned to smithereens and it’s still going and these idiots are wondering if it’ll meet quality standards. The question is, do they? And catch this lack of standards.
“New York authorities have the awesome problem of disposing of the 1.62 million tons of rubble that went to the nearby Fresh Kills landfill from the World Trade Center site. Some memorial sculptures made from recycled steel have been commissioned by the city, and tribute sculptures have now been erected in many civic and private facilities throughout the country.”
“The awesome problem” they have is 1.62 million tons of steel and not a ton for testing? I mean it sounds like they don’t know what to do with it. Why not shove some of it up the perpetrators’ collective ass, after we put a nice point on it. And then let us test a few thousand tons of it, every which way we can. This is live evidence which can serve for justice to the dead.
Then let us return to the ship-building and Northrop Grumman, actually on the banks of the Mississippi, which survived Katrina, another irony: the South’s 911.
Northrop’s Building Four 911-themed Assault Ships at a Billion Each
Not only will we have a USS New York to go after bin Laden, ha ha, and memorialize the infamy, we will also have a USS Arlington, named after that section of the Pentagon where the missile, I mean, airliner hit. And we’ll have a USS Somerset, in memory of that place in rural Pennsylvania where United Flight 93 or some other plane was shot out of the air by two F-16’s and a white military jet.
Forget about the fighting with the terrorists. If they were there, they didn’t know what hit them either. Badaboom, the plane exploded right in the air, seen eight miles away by all kinds of eyewitnesses.
So our USS New York will be the $1 billion pork chop for the military-industrial complex, “one of a new generation of amphibious assault ships capable of landing a 700-strong Marines assault force on a coastline almost anywhere without the need for a port.” So watch out everybody, everywhere, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Far Rockaway. Here we come.
In fact, Woody Oge (not Ogre), Northrop Grumman’s director of ops in New Orleans, “was keen to play down suggestions that the ship might be used to spearhead invasions.” It went something like, yeah, we’re building it to deliver humanitarian assistance as much as for war. Why, one such ship, the USS Boxer (not named after Barbara) was dispatched to deal with the aftermath of Katrina. And we all know how good that turned out, right Woody? Barf.
And even though the hurricane whooped through the shipyard last summer, the half-done New York survived intact. But a lot of black and white people drowned and lost their homes forever and a day. And some workers are living at the shipyard in the bebop “Camp Katrina.”
Earl Jones, one of the working dudes says that after eight months the Ninth Ward still isn’t rebuilt. “The insurance company won’t even talk to us. We’re having to hire lawyers to chase ‘em. I don’t like this, but I don’t want to be out of work.”
Mr. Jones in his infinite workingman’s wisdom says he does not want his old home enshrined in a billion dollar fighting machine. Me either, Mr. Jones. Not one frigging bit. But he does say, re his crib, a small check from the insurance company might help. Good luck, my brother, good luck.
Hey, all you 9-11 Truth fighters, let’s get our hands on some of that steel. I know the way to Kennedy. Pick you up tomorrow morning. Let’s go picket the airport till they show us. What do we have to lose but our loss? And what do we have to gain but the cold blue steel to win?
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer living in New York. He remembers crossing the Williamsburg Bridge as a kid in his father’s Chevy and looking down in wonder at the East River, the sprawling Navy Yard and the great American ships of WWII being patched and made from scratch to get rid of the Nazis who somehow have managed, even after defeat, to remain among us. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net, an NSA-Eyeball Company.
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The Times May 22, 2006
Warship built out of Twin Towers wreckage
By Tom Baldwin
In a shipyard in New Orleans, survivors of one disaster are building a monument to another
The USS New York is being built in New Orleans using steel from the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre (PAIGE EATON)
IN A city still emerging from the floods of Hurricane Katrina, a ship has begun to rise from the ashes of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Bringing together America’s two great calamities of the 21st century, the USS New York is being built in New Orleans with 24 tonnes of steel taken from the collapsed World Trade Centre.
There is no shortage of scrap metal in New Orleans these days, but the girders taken from Ground Zero have been treated with a reverence usually accorded to religious relics. After a brief ceremony in 2003, about seven tonnes of steel were melted down and poured into a cast to make the bow section of the ship’s hull.
Some shipworkers say the hairs stood up on the backs of their necks the first time they touched it. Others have postponed their retirement so they can be part of the project.
One worker, Tony Quaglino, said: “I was going to go in October 2004 after 40 years here, but I put it off when I found out I could be working on New York. This is sacred and it makes me very proud.” Glen Clement, a paint superintendent, said: “Nobody passes by that bow section without knocking on it. Everybody knows what it is made from and what it’s about.”
The ship is being built by Northrop Grumman on the banks of the Mississippi. It should be ready to join the US Navy in 2007.
Later vessels in its class will include USS Arlington — named after the section of the Pentagon that was also hit by an airliner on September 11 — and USS Somerset, in memory of United Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on the same day as passengers struggled with al-Qaeda hijackers.
Mr Clement said it would be fitting if USS New York’s first mission was to capture Osama bin Laden. He said: “They hit us first, but out of a tragedy a good thing has come, in that we’re building a ship which can help take those people out.”
The $1 billion vessel is one of a new generation of amphibious assault ships capable of landing a 700-strong Marines assault force on a coastline almost anywhere without the need for a port.
Woody Oge, Northrop Grumman’s director of operations in New Orleans, was keen to play down suggestions that the ship might be used to spearhead invasions.
He pointed out that LPD vessels had been used as much for humanitarian assistance as for war. One such ship, USS Boxer, was dispatched to help to deal with the aftermath of Katrina.
Although the hurricane smashed its way through the shipyard last summer, the half-completed New York survived intact. The same cannot be said for the homes of some of its builders. About 200 are still living at the shipyard in the hastily set up “Camp Katrina”.
They include Earl Jones. More than eight months after Katrina, he does not know if his home in the Lower Ninth ward will be rebuilt. “The insurance company won’t even talk to us,” he said. “We’re having to hire lawyers to chase ’em. I don’t like this, but I don’t want to be out of work.”
Mr Jones’s wife was evacuated to Baton Rouge and is seriously ill with breast cancer and pneumonia. He said: “She ain’t handling very well me being away all the time.”
Katrina and 9/11 are two disasters that continue to produce very different responses from America. Mr Jones does not want his old home enshrined in a $1 billion fighting machine, but a small cheque from the insurance firm might help.
FORCE OF LIBERTY
# USS New York, USS Arlington and USS Somerset will be part of a nine-vessel fleet of new amphibious transport ships
# Length: 208.5m (684ft) — more than twice as long as the Statue of Liberty
# Beam: 31.9m (105ft); weight: 24,900 tonnes; speed: 22 knots
# Equipment: helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, missile launchers
# Crew: more than 1,000, comprising 361 ship’s company plus 699 marines
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly...1-10889,00.html
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07/24/2006
Fragments of Twin Towers may return to Coatesville
Jennifer Miller , Staff Writer
COATESVILLE -- Pieces of the World Trade Center created by Lukens Steel workers could, in the future, be on permanent display here.
Scott Huston, a direct descendant of the Lukens family and president of the Graystone Society, is working to obtain steel plates or "trees" used near the base of the World Trade Center north and south towers.
On Sept. 11, 2001, highjackers crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.
While both towers collapsed, fragments of the building that remained standing were Lukens Steel trees, Huston said.
Huston wants the trees for the future National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum slated to be built in the city’s Lukens National Historic District. The Graystone Society, which was created in 1984 to help preserve the city’s historic architecture, is the group propelling the museum project.
On July 11, Huston and Gene DiOrio, Graystone Society vice president, traveled to the John F. Kennedy International Airport, where the last remains of the towers are being stored in an 80,000-square-foot hangar. Huston and DiOrio met with New York Port Authority officials about bringing some of the remnants back here.
"It was a very visible use of our steel," DiOrio said. "It became an emotional thing for people locally."
Of the 152 Lukens Steel trees used in the towers, only 13 remain. During site cleanup most of the remnants were sold for reuse, Huston said.
Huston and DiOrio hope to obtain three of the trees to put on display at the iron and steel museum in the works for the city’s historic district. The steel tree display would be part of a $25 million project.
"We want to honor not only what it means to go to work today, but also describe what Lukens did," Huston said.
But the New York Port Authority has not promised anything to Huston and DiOrio yet. Those in charge of a New York City memorial will have first pick over any of the items that remain, according to Steve Coleman, spokesman for the New York Port Authority.
Once 9/11 museum organizers select items for display in New York City, a system will be put into place to determine who gets the items that remain, Coleman said. Huston is on the waiting list for the items that will be left over.
But a time frame for when those on the waiting list will be addressed is unclear. Coleman said there are still issues to resolve in regards to insurance companies and legal issues. Technically, the insurance companies own the remains, Coleman said.
Huston said that if the steel trees are obtained, he hopes they can be put on display outside so that the exhibit is free to the public. However, there is some question as to how the steel would hold up outdoors, he said. Currently the pieces are being stored in a climate-controlled room where deterioration rates are being monitored, Huston said.
"Everybody is very serious about the preservation of these artifacts. These are artifacts," he said.
Construction of the World Trade Center began in 1966. The north tower opened in 1970 and the south tower opened in 1972.
If obtained, the steel trees would be part of The National Iron & Steel Museum that will use innovative technology to create interactive exhibits to help visitors understand how steel is made and the various items it is used for, such as aircrafts, rockets and submarines. The museum will also tell the story of former Lukens Steel workers, Huston said.
Chester County is the appropriate location of such a museum because at one point it held the most iron sites, Huston said.
The entire project includes the museum, Rebecca Lukens House, Terracina House, Brandywine Rolling Mill and Lukens Iron and Steel office building.
Currently, Huston is working to acquire the Rebecca Lukens House. Rebecca Lukens operated the steel mill during the 19th century. Acquiring the property is the first step in the large project, and is expected to be done this summer, Huston said.
By 2009, Huston hopes to acquire the planned museum site -- the 112-120 Mill Yard building complex, a former Lukens site that is currently owned by Mittal. Huston hopes to acquire the land just before Lukens Steel’s 200th birthday, in 2010.
Once the properties are acquired, fundraising can begin for the museum, Huston said.
In addition to preserving the history of Lukens Steel and the iron and steel industry as a whole, Huston and DiOrio see the 30,000 square foot museum as a catalyst for redevelopment in the city. The museum would create jobs and draw in tourists, DiOrio and Huston said.
"It’s a reinvestment in your community," Huston said.
In addition to the museum, there would be an additional 30,000 square feet for commercial space that could be used for a convention center, movie theater or indoor sports facility, Huston said.
Huston said he is awaiting $1 million in funding from the state capital budget, which state Rep. Tim Hennessey, R-26th, of North Coventry, helped get appropriated. But the state still needs to release the money, Huston said. In addition, efforts are being made to obtain federal funding for the museum, Huston said.
The entire project is assisted through seed money from the Stewart Huston Charitable Trust and The Huston Foundation.
Huston said there will be a meeting about the project with the city’s Redevelopment Authority in September.
To contact staff writer Jennifer Miller, send an e-mail to jmiller@dailylocal.com.