An injured member of the USS Cole is welcomed home as he walks off a plane at the U.S. Naval Station at Norfolk, Virginia, October 15. Thirty-three of the 39 members of the Cole who were injured returned to the destroyer's home port by plane. Thirty-three U.S. sailors injured in the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen got a hero's welcome at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia on Sunday, but six others remained hospitalized in Germany, including one in serious condition and another in very serious condition, a doctor said this morning.
Injured sailors return to a hero's welcome.
Four of the six sailors still hospitalized in Germany will fly home Tuesday, he said, and the other two in more serious condition are stable. All the families of the injured were in Germany with the sailors. The investigation continues into what caused the explosion during a refueling stop in Aden, Yemen, that crippled the USS Cole, injuring 39 sailors and killing 17. Somber Memorials Seaman Cherone Louis Gunn had been sending frequent e-mails to his family from the Cole. His last one was to his aunt, Gunn's brother Anton told Good Morning America .