Thanks, Leslie, and chowhound.
There was a memorial held in Kittery, Maine yesterday.
On April 7, 2013 the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Thresher, the Town of Kittery, Maine held ceremonies at the Kittery Memorial Circle to dedicate a 129 foot flagpole erected to honor the 129 lost souls that died on the Thresher. Kittery also plans a Thresher monument in Memorial Park at the entrance to the new Memorial Bridge (completed in mid 2013). Hundreds of townspeople, politicians, and families of the lost sailors and civilian crew turned out for the ceremony which was held under a sunny early Spring sky. As the 30' flag was raised it reached the half-way point when a brisk wind picked up and the flag took on a life of its own. The scene was like something out of Hollywood, but this scene was scripted by god. No one in the crowd of near one thousand could have missed the significance of that sudden breeze. It lifted the enormous flag which opened and began an endless wave, curling in upon itself and out again, and again. The people who were there this early spring morning will have memories of the words and images of this event for a lifetime, and will pass them on in oral histories to other generations, as is common to this very old and small seacoast town in Maine. (~wiki)
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