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USS COLE
October 12, 2000
SEVENTEEN people died and 39 were
injured in an
attack on the American guided missile destroyer,
USS Cole, in Aden Harbor, Yemen, on



 

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While the ship
was refueling offshore, a small craft with two men on board --presumed to be
suicide bombers--approached the ship and exploded. The small boat is believed
to have been packed with 400-700 pounds of explosives, and the blast blew a
40-foot hole in the side of the USS Cole. The Memorial honors the Sailors who lost their lives in the
October 2000 terrorist attack on USS COLE.
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