If it looks like a rock, maybe it's a rock ...

[JB White]

I reckon it's too late to comment on the rock?

[Vern Humphrey]

At the time Benteen joined Reno’s battalion, Reno had just suffered a major butt whipping. He was in no condition either mentally or militarily to do much more than hunker down and defend Reno Hill. Benteen hated Custer and saw no reason to leave the relative security of Reno’s position to assist his commander.

It's perfectly true that Reno suffered from what we now call PTSD. But it is NOT true that Benteen could have left Reno -- do you expect him with three companies to ride through the Hunkpapa? It would have been a repeat of the Fetterman disaster!

[dogtag]

I reckon it's too late to comment on the rock?

It's like relating a story to the first man in a long line.
By the time the story reaches the last man it's about something entirely different.

Anyway, what can you say about a rock ? It's hard ?

[Vern Humphrey]

It's like relating a story to the first man in a long line.
By the time the story reaches the last man it's about something entirely different.

Anyway, what can you say about a rock ? It's hard ?

Or it's igneous, sedimentary or conglomerate?

[Roadkingtrax]

Metamorphic*