Sweet Home sailor Vern Malone said he was excited to see the gun turret of the USS Monitor, 240 below the surface of the ocean, but the dents from cannon balls also caused him to pause.
“I realized that these guys were sailors, just like me,” said the 1988 SHHS graduate.
Now assigned to a submarine rescue team home ported in San Diego, Calif., Malone spent a month helping raise the 120 ton iron clad…