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Article: 33 injured on USS Cole arrive in U.S. Divers search ship for bodies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 16, 2000
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NORFOLK, Va.-Some with bruised and bandaged faces, others limping
badly, 33 sailors walked or were carried off the aircraft one by one
Sunday as a Navy band struck up "Anchors Aweigh."
Tentatively at first, then in waves, family members rushed across
the tarmac to greet them.
Some of the injured limped forward with the help of canes and
crutches before being enveloped in hugs. Children were thrown onto
fathers' shoulders.
Those unable to walk were carried off the plane on stretchers to
sustained applause and cheers from more than 1,500 sailors in dress
white uniforms turned out for the arrival.
One sailor, in a wheelchair because of his leg injury, waved
happily to the crowd and cameras.
The ...