Five Years

Alan Gray remembers the fallen of the U.S.S. Cole.

On October 12, 2000 at 1118 hrs a small boat approached the USS Cole, moored in Aden, Yemen for refueling, and detonated a bomb, killing 17 of our shipmates and wounding 39 others. Built in Pascagoula, MS and commissioned in 1996, the Cole is named for a Marine Corps machine-gunner killed on “Iwo Jima” in 1945. Fifty-five years after that epic battle, 17 young sailors, male and female, serving their nation would be killed by suicide bombers intent on bringing their Islamo-Facist global jihad against the West.

Go read their names and remember as well.

Comments

[torchy]

God rest their souls, let's make sure they didn't sacrifice in vain.

[Lawrence]

I have never forgotten this attack on The Uss Cole, and the demise of those fine sailors at the hand of fascist, Islamic terrorism.

[StinKerr]

Michell Malkin has a roundup and comments.

There are also some items in Stars and Stripes that I was unaware of, including the celebrations of the Yemenis in front of the Cole sailors.

I don't know that I could have stayed my hand in the face of such behavior. It's probably a good thing that the ships armory is locked.