“I Risked My Career to Rescue a Family in the Storm — I Didn’t Know Who the Father Was”

and a surprising number of people who’d been helped by programs he’d championed. At the reception, Eliza handed me his old brass compass, the one he’d given me years before.

“He wanted you to have this permanently,” she said. “He always said it was off by a degree, and that you’d correct for it by instinct.”

I held the compass carefully, feeling its continue reading …