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Article: USS COLE VICTIM TO BE BURIED AT SEA THE LATE SAILOR'S CREWMATES WERE LIKE BROTHERS TO HIM, SO HIS MOTHER WANTED HIS ASHES SCATTERED FROM THE COLE.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2002
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Byline: Sonja Barisic Associated Press
NORFOLK, VA. -- Sharon Priepke won't be on the pier when her son's ship, the USS Cole, returns to its home port Thursday, a year and a half after a terrorist bombing tore open its side.
Instead, now that the destroyer has been repaired, the Eldorado, Wis., woman will tow her son's beloved, restored 1980 Camaro to Norfolk in late June and escort his ashes to the Cole to be scattered at sea.
Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto and 16 other sailors died in the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing as the ship refueled in Yemen. The 24-year-old had spent four years assigned to the Cole, after two years of training, and had ...