from his own Navy career that he’d never fully told her before, stories about the sailors he’d fed and, in his own quiet way, protected across two and a half decades of service.
During one of those final visits, about six weeks before he died, Jack handed her a sealed envelope and told her, in a voice already weakened by illness but still carrying that same steady certainty she’d always known from him, that someday people would understand.
“Understand what?” she’d asked.
« Tu le sauras en temps voulu », dit-il, refusant