Warship?! For real?! - A Rant!

Ok, I know that my last few beginnings have been of a somewhat stressed nature, but it was all pretty light hearted. This one won't be...

*Warning: There might be some explicit content and things you might highly disagree with from this point on.

I got a disturbing email from a close family friend today. I am in no way attacking her for sending it to me or for her beliefs, but am actually quite grateful that I received it despite my feelings.

"USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center .
It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for everybody there."

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up." "It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."

The ship's motto? "Never Forget"

Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country.

Why Why Why?! Why would they create a WARship out of the rubble from the World Trade Towers?! A warship?! Seriously! Perfect; now we have something to exact our revenge on those terrorists who destroyed our country! It doesn't work like that!

That is like someone writing their child's name on a bomb that is to be dropped on Iraq, because their son or daughter was killed in the war.

What sense does that make?!

"Never forget?" What does that even mean?! I used to think that it meant we would never forget the men and women who lost their lives. That's not what it means anymore! It means that we will never forget what those "terrorists" did to us, we will never show forgiveness, we will never forget that our mission is to, "...hunt down the folks who committed this act."

I see what our country is made of!