uss cole bombing

Straight out of a bad Tom Clancy novel.

“I carried some of my best friends' bodies out of the ship. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do.”

The explosion was sudden, violent, deafening, so intense that 8,500 tons of steel lifted out of the water and crashed back down. The very metal of the ship shimmered and rippled in front of their eyes, remembered survivors. The force of it threw retired Master Chief Sonar Technician Paul Abney out of his chair and sent a shipmate flying over his head. Then, everything went black.

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