HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A submarine left a U.S. Navy base in Connecticut this week carrying the cremated remains of a veteran who will be buried at sea in the area where a submarine sank in 1963.
The USS Thresher went down off Cape Cod on April 10, 1963, killing all 129 men on board in the nation’s deadliest submarine disaster.
For half a century Navy Capt. Paul “Bud” Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him — and not his last-minute replacement — on the doomed voyage. After Rogers died last year, his family asked if the Navy could perform a burial ceremony near the site of the sinking.
His ashes and a Navy chaplain were aboard the USS Springfield when it left the base in Groton on Tuesday.
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