"What ranks highest with you?"

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After Pearl Harbor, General Theodore Roosevelt was flying on a plane and seats were hard to come by. At a stop, priority was served on a very young sailor, but he wouldn’t get off the plane. "I want to see my mother," he said.

"Sorry son," the ticket agent said, "There’s a war on, you know."

Having heard all of this, General Roosevelt stepped up to the counter and said, "Give him my seat. I’ll take a later plane."

A friend of Roosevelt’s walked up, having heard him give up his seat, and said, "Teddy, nobody is going to believe this when I tell it. Aren’t you in a hurry, too?"

And General Roosevelt said, "It’s a matter of rank. I’m only a general. He’s a son."

I guess respecting someone else’s rank depends on who’s doing the ranking, doesn’t it? Some ranks are just more important than others and not necessarily the ones we think of. Family ranked higher with Roosevelt.

Decide what ranks highest with you as you make a life, not just a living.

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