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"The first thing you think of is your friends and shipmates that have gone by, that you've lost. What comes to my mind is the Thresher because we had a lot of Albacore shipmates that we knew on there. We even had two shipmates that left our submarine and went to the Thresher just a short time before it went down. One of them I joined the Navy with. That's the first thing you think of. The people that are gone. The heroes that are gone."
— Norman Bower of Kingston, U.S. Navy veteran, served on USS Albacore for nearly 10 years
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