“There will be some who will let the memory of Oct. 12, 2000, fade into history. There will be some who will wish to forget this day. We will not. The sacrifice of those who gave their lives for this country is too great to forget.”

— Navy Cmdr. Andrew Ehlers, current commanding officer of USS Cole,
at a ceremony yesterday commemorating the 11th anniversary
of the ship’s bombing by al Qaeda, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 37