http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13378156/
Navy thinks it’s found long-lost WWII sub
Wreck found at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand may be USS Lagarto
Updated: 7:50 a.m. ET June 17, 2006
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HONOLULU – For 60 years, Nancy Kenney wondered what happened to her father.
The submarine that William T. Mabin was in disappeared while he and his crewmates were on a mission to attack a Japanese convoy in the last months of World War II.
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We always forget the costs of war. I STILL think that every street, gubamint building, or project should be named for a vet. I'f start with the MIAs, then do the KIAs. If we need more, then let's use the names of the disabled and wounded from the past wars. Maybe, just maybe, we would communicate to the children that vote us into these messes that they cost us more than money. One has to wonder what contributions William T. Mabin would have made had he returned from the war. Maybe he would cure cancer, be elected to office keeping us out of wars, or just be the greatest crossing guard in Michigan history. Like the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" postulates, " … all those men on that ship died, because Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry." We have no idea of the permutations and combinations possible!
But, we know one thing for sure, William T. Mabin would have known his daughter. And she would have known her father. For better or worse. But we can assume we know that war caused Mabin's death, Kenney's sorrow, and all of us are poorer for it.
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