while we are at it, let's not forget the 38 Men the USS Stark ( sister ship to the USS Luce ) that were killed in 1987..........thanks to K Mac for sending the below reminder on the Cole.
Let us remember the 17 Sailors killed in this terrorist attack, the dozens wounded, the survivors, and the families affected.
Today, Oct. 12, marks the seventh anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole.
Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.
Those sailors gathered their dead and wounded while watching the Yemenis celebrate the attack in view of the Cole for a couple of nights following the attack. They felt the U.S.S. Cole was their trophy.
Too many of us were blind in 2000 — unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.
Beware as the liberal watchdogs in the national press, insist on clouding our vision.
The recent "Zawahiri Letter" only confirms what many of us have been saying for quite some time: Iraq is the central front in the War on Terror, and al Qaeda has committed to the battle; "the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era." The conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Bosnia, which he refers to as the "far-flung regions of the Islamic world" are secondary in al Qaeda's plans for the formation of the Islamist Caliphate. The real lever of power is in Iraq, Egypt and the Levant (Syria and Lebanon).
May our thoughts and prayers be with all those who fight the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan and defend freedom from these terrorist aggressors.
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