USS Cole sailors greeted with cheers on return home before Christmas
NORFOLK, Virginia: Hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, after seven months at sea.
This week, the USS Cole returned to Naval Station Norfolk, greeted by a cheering crowd wrapped in coats and blankets. Families shed tears of joy and shared long hugs, and sailors embraced smiling children. Some people held flower bou