{"id":15100,"date":"2016-05-09T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:00:04","slug":"crusader-corner-the-betrayal-of-the-uss-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/09\/crusader-corner-the-betrayal-of-the-uss-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: The Betrayal of the USS Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>May the memory of those brave men live on forever and may their memory also haunt these piece of turd politicians who are INTENT on letting their islamic dog murderers go free and breathe the same air as me and you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0NO JUSTICE=NO PEACE.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15101\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/usscole.jpg\" alt=\"usscole\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, sailors on board the USS Cole were lining up for an early lunch. Seventeen of them died as an Al Qaeda bomb on board a fishing boat tore through the hull outside the galley. The dead included 15 men and 2 women, one of whom had a young child. For three weeks the crew of the USS Cole struggled to keep their ship from sinking while working waist deep in water with bucket brigades, sleeping on the deck and living surrounded by the terrible aftermath of the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>The survivors, wounded and whole, received the words <em><strong>&#8220;Glory is the Reward of Valor&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> written on the bent steel removed from the site of the explosion that tore through their ship and their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the United States promised that justice would be done. \u201cTo those who attacked them we say: You will not find a safe harbor. We will find you and justice will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Despite Clinton\u2019s words, justice did not prevail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The father of Hull Maintenance Technician Third Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter believed that there would be justice, but he was to be disappointed. \u201cI just felt, for sure, you know, they\u2019re not going to go ahead and just kiss off the lives of 17 U.S. sailors,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, they didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/the-betrayal-of-uss-cole.html\">Sultan Knish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the memory of those brave men live on forever and may their memory also haunt these piece of turd politicians who are INTENT on letting their islamic dog murderers go free and breathe the same air as me and you. \u00a0NO JUSTICE=NO PEACE.\u00a0 On Thursday morning, sailors on board the USS Cole were lining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1704,5072,2574,74,1635,272],"tags":[545,3959,11551,11552],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}