The Spirit of America

From Stars and Stripes

The U.S. Navy will commission the USS New York in 2008, which is being constructed from 10 tons of mangled, hallowed, steel from the World Trade Center.

I certainly pray our soldiers are long gone from Iraq before that time arrives, but, divine providence may rise up and control events. Any student of history sees repeating patterns (previous post).

For Patrick Cartier Sr., the ship is an honorable way to remember his son, James Marcel Cartier, who was killed when the South Tower collapsed.

You’ve got the very soul of the event in that mangled steel, and all of that steel which housed all the people fell along with them and they were all consumed in that terrible fireball and that collapse, the New York City man said.

Using the steel for the new ship would capture the spiritual essence of those who died in the World Trade Center, Cartier said.

The New York and other amphibious transport docks will support freedom all over the globe.

Could it be that the destiny of the New York may prove to be a modern-era Missouri?

Imagine, September 2, 2008. Osama bin Laden has been serving time at Gitmo for 2 years. Democratic governments have blossomed in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan; even Saudi Arabia’s family monarchy has become more symbolism than rulers, much like the royals of Great Britain.

Newly elected Presidents and Prime Ministers from throughout the Muslim Middle East convene aboard the USS New York. President George W. Bush delivers a stirring speech, echoing the words General MacArthur delivered on that day he accepted the surrender of Japan;

It is my earnest hope that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge, a world dedicated to the dignity of man. Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.