Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders of Ringgold, Virginia was a former track and football star at Dan River High School where he was involved in several of the activities. He was a kindhearted person. Tim was a career Navy man who was married and the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 7. He was killed in al-Qaida's 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy destroyer in Yemen along with 16 of his shipmates on the USS Cole. Although he was buried at sea, he has a memorial marker at the Hampton National Cemetery. He was 30.∼He was one of the crew members of the USS Cole killed in the terrorist attack on the Cole on October 12, 2000 at a port in Yemen. His ashes were scattered at sea.
Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders of Ringgold, Virginia was a former track and football star at Dan River High School where he was involved in several of the activities. He was a kindhearted person. Tim was a career Navy man who was married and the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 7. He was killed in al-Qaida's 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy destroyer in Yemen along with 16 of his shipmates on the USS Cole. Although he was buried at sea, he has a memorial marker at the Hampton National Cemetery. He was 30.∼He was one of the crew members of the USS Cole killed in the terrorist attack on the Cole on October 12, 2000 at a port in Yemen. His ashes were scattered at sea.
