On Eternal Patrol...April 10, 1963

[82Rigger]

This post is dedicated to the memory of the USS THRESHER (SSN 593) and her crew, lost during deep dive trials off Cape Cod, on April 10, 1963.

112 US Navy crew members

17 civilian shipyard personnel of the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard.

"Bless those who serve beneath the deep,

Through lonely hours their vigil keep.

May peace their mission ever be,

Protect each one we ask of thee.

Bless those at home who wait and pray,

For their return by night or day."

[PHO127]

That I am old enough to remember something that happened 40 years ago, and I was not a child when it happened. Mercy, Mercy.

God bless them and all of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guard, they travel in Harms way so we don't have to.

[82Rigger]

...in this forum were in high school in '63...when the Thresher sunk...when Kennedy was asassinated.

I work with elementary age kids. They weren't even born when the Gulf War was going on.

God! That makes me feel OLD!

Steve / 82Rigger