On the recordApril 11, 2013
This week marks the 50th anniversary of a terrible submarine disaster. The USS Thresher, the first in a new class of subs designed to answer the Soviet threat in the Cold War, left the world's greatest shipyard, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, to conduct sea trials on April 10, 1963. Disaster struck, and America lost 129 of its finest men that day. I honor these men who are on eternal patrol, and I honor their families, their wives and their children, some of whom never met their dads. Their sacrifices did lead to a sub safety program. One of the surviving children wrote a song about his dad, and he said, ``A man whose love is stronger than the tide that's taken you away.'' Let's pause and remember these great men and their families. ____________________
