Family Speaks out about Bin Laden’s Death
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Isabella Owens has grown up without her father. She was just 4-years-old when he was killed in a terror attack overseas. “I just always thought that he was gone to sea and then I realized he just wasn’t ever coming home,” said Isabella. Electronic Warfare Technician Petty Officer Second Class Ronald Scott Owens was assigned to the USS Cole in Nov., 1999. It would be his last mission at sea. “I had always known him as dad. So it was more like everyone talked about what a hero he was. It kind of made me appreciate it a lot more,” Isabella said. Owens was eating lunch when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden. “About 8 p.m. that night they came to the door and told me he was missing in action,” said Owens’ wife, Jaime Scott Owens. Five days later his body was found, but for his high school sweet heart and wife, Jaime, knowing her daughter would grow up without a father was almost too much to bear. “She lost way more than I did. She lost a whole lifetime of memories with him,” said Jaime. More than a decade later, sorrow gave way to bittersweet happiness as the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed spread across the world. “Justice, I mean it has been so hard. I guess closure, happy and sad too at the same time,” Jaime said crying. “I really did not know what to think at first. I never even really thought it would happen,” said Isabella. Owens may be gone forever, but he will always be remembered as a national hero and a loving husband and father. “I was not left alone, I had [Isabella],” Jaime said.
