Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago

Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina.

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  1. NEW ORLEANS - NOVEMBER 29: Worshippers attend services at New Israel Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward November 29, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The church was flooded with 13 feet of water during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but has since rebuilt.
  2. NEW ORLEANS - NOVEMBER 28: Deverille Dupar (L) and Deecarla Rogers play in front of a new home constructed by the Make it Right foundation in the Lower Ninth Ward November 28, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prospective homeowners must have lived in the Lower Ninth Ward when Hurricane Katrina hit to qualify. Brad Pitt�s foundation plans to construct 150 green, storm-resistant, affordable homes in the neighborhood.
  3. SHELL BEACH, LA - NOVEMBER 27: A plaque and cross honoring those killed by Hurricane stands in the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet in St. Bernard Parish November 27, 2009 in Shell Beach, Louisiana. A federal judge handed down a historic judgement last week when he ruled the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of the controversial Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for Hurricane Katrina flooding in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward.
  4. Anthony Franz and Lucille Franz, plaintiffs in a lawsuit, wait for news conference announcing the historic judgement where a federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
  5. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: (L to R) Former President Bill Clinton, actor Brad Pitt and Lower Ninth Ward homeowner Deidra Taylor laugh while discussing post-Katrina New Orleans at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) September 24, 2009 in New York City. Taylor received a new home from Pitt's Make it Right foundation after hers was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The fifth annual meeting of the CGI gathers prominent individuals in politics, business, science, academics, religion and entertainment to discuss global issues such as climate change and peace in the Middle East. The event, founded by Clinton after he left office, is held the same week as the General Assembly at the United Nations, when most world leaders are in New York City.

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