Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Timothy Lee Gauna, age 21, from Rice, Texas, Navarro county.
Service era: War on Terror
Date of death: Thursday, October 12, 2000
Death details: Died aboard the U.S.S. Cole when suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat against the ship’s port side, tearing a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull and sending seawater gushing into the engineering compartment.
Source: Department of Defense
Langdon Parlett, age 19, from Churchville, Maryland, Harford county.
Service era: War on Terror
Parents: Leroy and Etta Parlett
School: Harford Christian (1999)
Date of death: Thursday, October 12, 2000
Death details: Died aboard the U.S.S. Cole when suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat against the ship’s port side, tearing a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull and sending seawater gushing into the engineering compartment.
Source: Department of Defense, U.S. Navy
Andrew Triplett, age 31, from Macon, Mississippi, Noxubee county.
Service era: War on Terror
Date of death: Thursday, October 12, 2000
Death details: Died aboard the U.S.S. Cole when suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat against the ship’s port side, tearing a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull and sending seawater gushing into the engineering compartment.
Source: Department of Defense