Local families will tell you that building, maintaining and operating a submarine requires commitments from more than the men and women directly involved.
Production deadlines can mean longer hours in the office where they are designed or in “the yard” where they are welded together and equipped.
Global deployments for the sailors and officers who operate subs translate into birthdays, anniversaries, first steps, and back-to-school rituals missed. A six-month deployment is tough, and when geopolitics go awry, six months can become a year.
The families of submariners are the support systems that let our sailors focus on the job – the defense of our nation.
This monument, trherefore, also honors the men, women, and children of those at-home support systems who are just as vital as the men and women who are “underway.”
