Fleet Week 2012: Rain doesn't dampen Fleet Week fun on Staten Island

NEW YORK — New York City rededicated the Donald Cook Square to late Brooklyn native Col. Donald Cook, May 25. Cook grew up in Brooklyn, where his childhood home was located within walking distance of the park. He joined the Marine Corps in 1957.

New York City is celebrating the 25th Fleet Week by welcoming thousands of America's men and women in uniform. Fox News's Anna Kooiman was onboard the USS Wasp which is the biggest ship docked in NYC for the

Pilots and Navy SEALs wave to the crowd after landing on the field at Eastbrook Middle School in Paramus, part of a Fleet Week demonstration. Also on hand to watch were students from Paramus High School and Westbrook Middle School.

Sailors from the Ecuadorean Navy vessel the "Buque Escuela" enjoy Fleet Week in New York on May 26th, 2012. (DNAinfo/Paul Lomax) Thousands of people flocked to the USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum today to kick start this weekend's Memorial Day

AP Singer Katy Perry stands with an unidentified US Navy personnel as she performs at an event kicking off Fleet Week in New York. Those ships you see by Battery Park? They're not just replicas. It's New York Fleet Week, when members of the Navy,