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Troy resident serving on USS New York By Tom Caprood The Record Click to enlarge The USS New York was built using materials from the World Trade Center. Troy resident Thomas F. Casey is serving on the ship. (Photo submitted) TROY — A city resident is among a select few in the Navy with the privilege of serving aboard a ship made in part from pieces of the fallen World Trade Center. Thomas F. Casey, 19, is a crew member aboard the USS New York, a vessel which has been under construction in Louisiana since 2004 and was first christened in March of 2008. The ship’s bow stem includes seven and a half tons of steel which was recovered from the World Trade Center’s twin towers and melted down after the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001. It is scheduled to arrive at the WTC site today and be honored during a commissioning ceremony in New York City on Saturday. “We’re making history,” said Casey on Friday, as the vessel lay docked off the coast of North Carolina on its voyage toward New York. “It’s tou
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