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Iwo Jima
KIA on D-1 Medal of Honor Winner Sgt. Darrell Samuel Cole, USMCR. Sgt.
Cole’s heroism on 19Feb1945 was memorialized by the Navy with the June 1995 commissioning of DDG-67 USS COLE an Arliegh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer.
USS COLE was attacked by al Qaeda terrorists in Aden Yemen on Oct 12, 2000.
Corpsman John Bradley, one of the 3 men in Rosenthal’s picture to survive the battle - said it best “We’re not heros, the heros are the ones who didn’t come home.”
My six degrees:1) Sgt. D. S. Cole dies at Iwo Jima winning the congressional Medal of Honor
2) US Navy names DDG-67 in honor of Sgt. Cole
3) I was assigned to the Commissioning crew.
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"USS COLE was attacked by al Qaeda terrorists in Aden Yemen on Oct 12, 2000"
Um, you're being overly modest. Last I checked, you were ON the Cole when it got hit.
Sometimes I think of that mode as being ironic. To be honest I was following Doc Bradley's principle - I'm not a hero -- The hero's from 12 OCT 2000 are at Arlington (5); Antietam (2); various private, non-military cemeteries, and buried at sea.
Yes, I was there - one of the few commissioning crew left at the time. Since I left we've had 2 or 3 return for a second tour.
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