Remembering the USS Cole
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he USS Cole (DDG 67) is towed away from the port city of Aden, Yemen, into open sea by the Military Sealift Command ocean-going tug USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168) on Oct. 29, 2000. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was the target of a suspected terrorist attack in the port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000, during a scheduled refueling. The attack killed 17 crew members and injured 39 others.
DoD photo by Sgt. Don L. Maes, U.S. Marine Corps.
Ten years ago this week, suicide bombers blasted a hole in the side of the USS Cole while it sat in a harbor in Yemen. Seventeen American sailors were killed in the terrorist attack, and dozens more injured. Many of the crew members on the Cole that day remember the attack in vivid detail.
A new documentary from America Abroad, "Remembering the Cole," looks back at what happened and how America responded.
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