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Source: MSNBC
Breaking News
January 1, 2009

Sons’ love for missing dad plumbs the ocean’s depths

After more than 65 years, brothers find his sunken World War II submarine.

Longing can chart a better course than MapQuest. After more than 60 years, the Abele brothers have finally found their father.

Lt. Cmdr. Jim Abele commanded the USS Grunion, a submarine that disappeared off the coast of Alaska during World War II. Seven years ago his sons made a deal with their hearts, not their heads, and went looking for him.

It cost them a bundle."If this were an official Navy project, I would guess that the taxpayers would be paying about 10 times what we're paying," John Abele chuckled.

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