Navy to scatter vet's ashes near site of 1963 sub sinking
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this July 9, 1960 file photo the 278-foot (82 meters) long nuclear powered attack submarine USS Thresher, a first in its class boat, is launched bow-first at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. A Navy submarine that left a Connecticut base this week is carrying the ashes of a veteran to be buried at sea near the site of the USS Thresher's sinking. 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. (AP Photo, File) (The Associated Press)
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.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His ashes and a Navy chaplain were aboard the USS Springfield when it left the base in Groton on Tuesday.