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Keeler retired about a decade ago from a number-crunching job with a Bay Area school district.

Paula Keeler, 74, took a break from her recent shift inspecting produce to discuss the organization’s beneficence.

“It’s kind of like the Serenity Prayer,” Keeler said.

For all the push-ups completed, for all the running drills endured and for all the yelling received during his days playing high school football at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High in the 1990s, Dan Keeler is getting the last laugh later this month when he takes command of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in Coronado.

Keeler, who graduated from high school in 1994 and went on to the Naval Academy, is taking command of one of the Navy’s most prominent ships.