(and that always seems to publish stories at the "right" time).
I will enjoy this research project!
GUEST OPINION: Remember New York
Thursday, September 11, 2003
- by Jim Hauser,(formerly from Rochelle, Illinois) Pascagoula, MS
Pascagoula, Miss., Apr. 19, 2002 - The guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) glides to sea this morning, passing Pascagoula area pleasure fishermen, to rejoin the U.S. Atlantic Fleet following 14 months of repairs after a terrorist bomb blew a hole in the port side of the ship while it was refueling in the port city of Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000, killing 17 sailors. The repairs were done at the shipyard of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Operations. U.S. Navy photo by Stacey Byington. <020419-N-0000B-002> Apr. 19, 2002
OPINION -- first penned 9/12/2001 -- When the USS Cole was bombed last year the entire world once again saw the effects of terrorism. This was an act of war committed by a band of international criminals. Many of us saw the videos and pictures of the gaping hole. Many of us expressed outrage and demanded justice.
We watched as the crippled warship was loaded onto the Blue Marlin, a heavy lift vessel. We then tracked it's progress back to the United States while at the same time following reports of the investigation.
Most of the nation only knew that the Cole was being transported to a shipyard in Mississippi for repairs. For those of us who live near that shipyard, it meant a close-up view of the realities of war. The USS Cole would be docked less than one mile from my front door.
http://www.illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=8351EDITED TO ADD THIS HORRIBLE LINE FROM THE ABOVE PIECE! (What a sick ahole :wtf:)
"It would be quite fitting, I think, if somehow the USS Cole could be there to fire the first shots in the coming war."
God Bless America.
Jim Hauser
(formerly from Rochelle, Illinois)
Pascagoula, MS