The USS New York, which was made from scrap metal of the World Trade Center, will be arriving in New York Harbor on Nov. 1 and be commissioned to the U.S. Navy on Nov. 7. If you are planning a trip to New York, you will be able to tour the ship during that week. The ship contains 24 tons of scrap metal that was melted down from the World Trade Center at a foundry Amite, La. Reportedly, when it was poured into molds on Sept. 9, 2004, “those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,” recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. “It was a spirtual moment for everybody there.”

The ship’s motto is: Never Forget.

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the World Trade Center steel first arrived, he touched with his hand and the “hair on my neck stood up. It had a big meaning to it for all of us. They knocked us down, but they can’t keep us down. We are going to be back.”