#PUT6 ARCHIVE | PODCAST #1: CDR. KIRK LIPPOLD, USS COLE (ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON 10/12/00)

RECORDED AND RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021 AND PULLED FROM THE #PUT6 ARCHIVES ON 21-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON THE USS COLE (10/12/00). -- Before 9/11 there was 10/12. Kirk Lippold, US Navy (Ret.), was the Commander of the USS Cole on October 12th, 2000. This was roughly one year before the World Trade Center was destroyed in New York City, before the Pentagon was attacked, before the plane went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and before more than 3,000 people were killed at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists all on American soil. On October 12th, 2000 the USS Cole, while refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen was attacked. Some might say a precursor to 9/11. Men and women in the uniform of the United States Navy lost their lives. The moments immediately following the attack, and the subsequent days that exemplify picking up the six through service before self. Commander Lippold joined the podcast to talk about how his sailors truly lived for others in a moment of extreme crisis.