I smiled because the sailor who shoved me into the harbor had finally understood the lesson I couldn’t have ordered him to learn.

Rank tells people what authority you hold.

Character determines what you do with it.

And whenever I remembered the freezing water closing over my head that morning, I remembered something else too.

The Jefferson’s real inspection began forty-five minutes early.

It ended almost a year later.

And the most important grade I gave that ship was never written on a single sheet of paper.

THE END!

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