WTC steel salvaged to make USS New York

Sunday, December 29, 2002

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Steel salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center was headed to a Mississippi shipyard Saturday for use in the USS New York, a warship named in honor of those who perished in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

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