Bumper Sticker Features USS NEW YORK - NEVER FORGET

Commemorating the Christening and Commission
Heavyweight vinyl bumper sticker

Super adhesive - Vibrant colors -Product size: 10in x 3in

• Price includes shipping via First Class Parcel Post

Special features of USS NEW YORK:

• Bow stem includes seven and a half tons of steel recovered from the World Trade Center's twin towers
• Construction with World Trade Center steel was encouraged by Governor George Pataki of New York and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City
• Name given by then Secretary of the Navy Gordon England
• Keel was laid on August 2004
• 1,200 Louisiana workers stayed to keep building the ship after Hurricane Katrina hit the shipyard in August 2005
• Ship was christened at Northrop Grumman's Avondale shipyard on March 1, 2008
• Motto: "Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."