"I always thought a formal burial at sea was about as heart wrenching a ceremony as I would ever want to watch. The paradox of paying final respects to a comrade and knowing his remains will be at the bottom of the sea forever with no marker...never to return home."

Joe, they taught us in boot camp that those sailors and Marines consigned to the deep were forever with their comrades in arms. My Uncle John Wesley Price said when it was done you could only hear the wind, the wake, the splash, and the sobs. Stan