@deb_in_ohio · 18 Feb 2026 · 20:40
The United States Navy has lost the cruiser Gettysburg in the North Sea. Thirty-two Americans did not come off that ship.
— Written statement, the White House
The Phase II situation report delivered to the Situation Room that evening gave her loss one line, between the standoff-inventory figure and the statement that the allied deterrent remained unlocated.
"I ordered the operation she was on. Nobody else ordered it."
I have been on this app defending him for six weeks and I have taken some abuse for it, some of it deserved.
Tonight he said the one thing I needed him to say. It does not bring back thirty-two boys. I am still glad he said it and I am still not sure what I think about anything else.
Deb — I have been on the other side of you in these replies for a month.
You are right. He said it, and it was the right thing, and I am not going to take that away from him tonight.
I hope you and I are still arguing about all of this in ten years. That will mean we got to.