Years ago I was offered a job at Portsmouth Navy Yard, and due to the great difficulty they were having hiring they invited me out for a bit of a reverse interv

Years ago I was offered a job at Portsmouth Navy Yard, and due to the great difficulty they were having hiring they invited me out for a bit of a reverse interview - meetings with their leadership and the grand tour of the facility to try to sell me on taking the position. This was basically an entry level position so the experience was rather unusual. There are a lot of very interesting things to see there, but one thing that stood out is how they took me and a couple of other prospective employees to see the memorial wall to the Thresher in one of their conference rooms. Even fifty years later it felt that the incident was still well known at Portsmouth and influential on their culture. Later I would work at facilities handling much more dangerous weapons that seemed to lack anywhere near that level of personal connection to safety culture, despite a legacy that had claimed numerous lives and not only among the enemy.