perfidy

From Stars and Stripes:

From rubble to avenging angel: The U.S. Navy is using steel from the World Trade Center in a new ship, according to the Navy.

Ten tons of steel from the World Trade Center’s twin towers will be used in the construction of the USS New York, according to a Navy official.

The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock is slated to be commissioned in 2008.

Being a squishy peacenik socks-n-sandals sort I generally squirm at gestures that whiff of vengeance. Unfortunately there is twelve-million-square-foot hole in my mercy that is still, four years down the road, full of black rage and sorrow. The notion that some of the steel from the WTC has made its way into a fighting vessel called the USS New York makes me feel... good.

It also nearly makes up for the failure of the designers of the new buildings to go with my preferred plan.

[wik] h/t Blackfive.