Working in the submarine service gets you accustomed to working with the finest, something we may take for granted until such time as we go out into civilian life. With the passage of time, we tend to gloss over our negative experiences and romanticize the positive. This is the same mental phenomenon that causes you to invite a long-lost cousin to stay for a week, only to realize, as soon as he arrives, why you were glad he was long lost. That notwithstanding, I believe the only truly negative experiences in life are those from which we failed to learn a lesson. What I will try to do here now is relate just a few of the many important lessons my shipmates taught me in my four years aboard Bergall.
Accountability leads to second chances.
Second chances lead to success. No matter how bad it gets, it s never so bad that you can t sing a goofy song about it. Lighthouses can turn up in the damnedest places. Nice guys don t always finish last. U.S.S. Seawolf ballcaps are for display purposes only.