We lost a dear friend and fellow Naval Academy classmate of my husband on the Thresher. His name was Merrill Collier. He was brilliant and kind to a fault. What a terrible tragedy this was.
I went to the Thresher site and said a little prayer for each name posted, including Merrill Collier. Reading the son’s ‘Unknown Father’ poem was so sad. We’ll never know the suffering of those men and the pain of their families that continues to this day. God bless them all.