@momof3_indy · 21 Feb 2026 · 10:00
I don't rule things out. That's the whole job.
The Phase III staging report — amphibious readiness, sealift convoy assembly, minefield interdiction, and the lodgment timetable — is due at 18:00 on 24 February. It has not been written. The record ends here.
"I don't rule things out. That's the whole job."
Sir. My son is nineteen. He is at Bragg. XVIII Airborne Corps is in that plan and so is he.
Rule it out. That is also the job. That is the part of the job where you tell a mother in Indiana that her boy is not going to be in the first wave onto a beach in a country we were allied with at Christmas.
Rule it out.
Tanya, I am 74 and I have nothing useful to offer you except that I am thinking about your boy tonight, and I will again tomorrow.
That is not much. I am sending it anyway.